#I cannot fucking operate under these conditions

[staytiny-angel]

#I cannot fucking operate under these conditions #svt #Seventeen #Follow to Seoul

[oldpotatoe]

as many of you know, gaza has now gone dark.

targeted israeli strikes have wiped out the telecommunications infrastructure. phone lines and internet services are gone. gazans cannot call their loved ones to check if they are still alive. they cannot call for ambulances for aid. if they survive the increased bombardment tonight and the following nights, they will bleed out alone with no aid.

now i will tell you what will happen in the next few days/weeks, and i pray it to be untrue. unfortunately the apartheid state, also known as israel, has been quite obvious and transparent with their plans.

the stated goal of many politicians over the years from israel, including netanyahu, has been to have the entire strip of land of gaza as israel, with no separate region for palestinians. i am not going to provide links, google is free and i am fucking tired.

what they had done before tonight, in the last two weeks, was destroy over 50% of buildings in gaza city as well as neighbouring areas, so gazans have nowhere to return to. gazans have been forced south, and israel will use this opportunity to have troops in north gaza (currently referred to as the ground invasion) advancing south while bombing "h*mas sites" in the south. israel will do this knowing there are plenty more civilians there that will die, causing terror and panic and having palestinians want to flee to anywhere, anywhere that is safe.

israel is doing this in the hopes that this panic and terror will convince egypt to open the border (well, the border israel isn't currently bombing) so that palestinians can escape to the sinai desert in egypt.

once survivors leave, the area that is currently the gaza strip will 1) be reduced in size if a lot of palestinians stay, should they not be bombed out of existence, or 2) be entirely absorbed into israel if very few palestinians stay, which is the ultimate aim of israel. those remaining palestinians will be moved to the west bank, or the remainder of gaza will be converted to west bank conditions where they'd go through the same problems palestinians in the west bank go through (reduced access to water, checkpoints to go from any place to any place within their own land, getting dispossessed, or randomly killed by racist extremist settlers).

now, egypt has been adamant not to displace the palestinians. in online discourse, people have been dehumanising palestinians by talking about past disruptions in other refugee areas and saying that is why egypt does not want to take them. while there may be slight truth to this from egypt's perspective, the major reason egypt is refusing is that no palestinian refugee abroad has even been given the right to return to their own land. and this will be the fate of gazans if they are made to leave in a mass exodus to egypt/other neighbouring countries such as jordan, which these leaflets from army-backed israeli are threatening palestinians with (photo from salfit in the occupied west bank):

therefore, what i likely see happening is the above bombardment (in increased numbers now that gaza has gone dark) -> mass panic in gaza, more so now that gazans are cornered in the south -> a reluctant egypt, but with the US will promise a large amount of "aid" money to egypt to facilitate the mass exodus of palestinians, the borders will open.

palestinians will be forced out. israelis are already planning on hoovering up the prime real estate there, for amusements park no less!

this is nabka 2.0. this is genocide.

btw, as we speak: israel's leading newspaper is already making claims that h*mas's main operation base is under shifa hospital. the hospital currently housing 50,000 displaced palestinians. the idf is claiming h*mas is using the hospital as a human shield, which is their new favourite phrase to justify killing civilians. so you already know what to expect in the news.

#palestine #free palestine #my heart is so heavy. #meanwhile in tel aviv - parties. halloween nights. weddings and celebrations. meanwhile 50 miles away there is a massacre happening. #dont talk to me about pain if you in any way support the israeli gvt or zionists. dont interact wit this post. i have no patience left.

[cerastes]

It’s true though, Tomimi’s design is apex horny but I cannot think of her in any sexual light 20% because I’m a thin, long tail kinda guy, and 80% because she’s actually fucking hilarious, all I associate Tomimi with is “endorphin”, she’s a Caster but excels in hand-to-hand combat, to the point where she managed to take over several Sargonian tribes by beating them, cunning enough that she managed to do that in the lowdown without a lot of people noticing, canonically knows how to operate a surface-to-air missile launcher, canonically operated a surface-to-air missile launcher to shoot down her crush because she (correctly) assumed said crush could survive not just getting hit by a missile, but also the subsequent plane crash, she did this after she got her crush to come by plane at her own repeated insistence, met Doctor and unlike the vast majority of characters, immediately perceived them as a LETHAL THREAT but not because she sensed anything wrong with them or managed to peek into their past or anything, it was simply because Doc and Gavial are canonically good friends, and since Doc is also pretty fragile physically, Gavial was taking extra care to make sure they were alright in the harsh conditions of Sargon, which made Tomimi supremely jealous, and the moment she goes an “uuuu uuuu uuuu why don’t you ask ME if I slept well”, Gavial immediately chokeslams her with “bro you are literally a warlord, I’m positive you’re fine”, oh, yeah, Tomimi is a warlord, also the moment the GIG IS UP, Tomimi goes “my psionic warriors! Seal this booboo bear within my bedroom! I command you!” but then Gavial and Eunectes do a beautiful reenactment of Dynasty Warriors 3 and beat the absolute shit out of numerous tribes while Tomimi rapidly starts freaking out in real time because SHE knows it’s up, she’s getting owned in front of girls, she’s getting owned in front of the girl she LIKES, by the girl she likes, and by the end, she gets spanked in her fat tail by Gavial (around 800000 newtons of force) and says FINE and applies to Rhodes Island instead if she can’t keep Gavial in Sargon.

And what do we learn in Rhodes Island? She knows how to fucking work a grill. She canonically can operate a surface-to-air missile launcher AND a grill, and everyone loves her! And when getting evaluated to be a Caster, since her style of magic is “hook to the liver into double leg takedown and transition into triangle choke”, the evaluators were like “mmmm so that’s not quite what we do here...”

but then

“...But also that was dope as all fuck and I think we, as Casters, ought to get BUFF and learn HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT as well, funny alligator girl has a point” and they let her be a Caster even though her signature spell is Suplex.

So this absolute goober shoots your plane down with a missile launcher, then tries to kidnap you, THEN fails so fucking hard at her job interview that they go “we’ve never seen anyone do it this bad, you’re fascinating”, actually gets the job, under you, because that’s where they put the weirdos, and turns out to be a grillmaster that is only born once every one hundred years.

There is actually nothing about Tomimi that isn’t fucking hilarious and I will wingman for her at the cost of everything, I will risk it ALL.

#arknights #tomimi

[saintsenara]

SORRY I KNOW ITS WEIRD ASKING A HP TUMBLR BLOG FOR LIFE ADVICE BUT IM SO CURIOUS HOW DO YOU MANAGE YOUR TIME

this is a genuine answer.

i think it's very important for there to be no doubt about the fact that - without medication - i would be fucked. there are plenty of non-medical ways of helping to manage adhd, but stimulant medication is the frontline treatment for a reason - no matter what the latest moral panic says. you cannot girlboss your way out of having an incurable neurological condition - and i will be honest that the few people in my life who think that you can are also the few people in my life i consider to be actively contemptible.

time management starts and ends with easily having executive function - and "easily" is the operative word. i can - of course - survive without medication - but i do so while stalked by a constant state of nervous energy which is just exhausting. not least because it ruins my sleep.

[the experience of realising that - no - you're not semi-nocturnal, you've just never before been properly calm the first time you take your pills... exquisite.]

and when i'm in the state of relative normality that legal amphetamine use brings, i manage my time by...

1. wearing a watch

no checking the time on my phone - i'll just get distracted by scrolling.

2. setting huge numbers of alarms

beat time-blindness with this one weird trick.

bonus points - if you're someone who finds it hard to switch between tasks or gets stuck hyper-focusing on things, then set the alarm and then put the device it's on far enough away from you that you have to move in order to turn it off.

3. putting everything on the wall

if you are dopamine-challenged, the best tip i can give you is that you are deluding yourself if you think you can use normal diaries/planners/to-do lists. this is why you probably have cupboards full of them.

stick everything on the wall, where you can see it, and set it up in a way that you can easily move tasks around [i.e. by using a whiteboard you can erase, or sticking your planner inside a plastic wallet and writing on it, or by having everything on sticky notes you can move around].

numbered task lists [i have to do x first, then move onto y] are a no-go - because if you don't do x, then you won't move onto y. but having groups of tasks - organised by urgency or difficulty, for example - which are right there in front of you can be selected from work much better with the adhd brain.

4. being a shark

by which i mean, being constantly on the move. desk chairs are the enemy. never sit still.

if you have adhd - and, to be frank, even if you don't - you will find that doing something physical while you need to concentrate on a task improves your ability to focus on that task. it also helps with managing time-blindness, task-switching, hyper-focus which is to the detriment of what you're supposed to be doing, and being easily distracted.

when i'm at work i literally never sit down. i use a standing desk [which, if you have a diagnosis of adhd and you're uk-based, counts as a reasonable adjustment your employer has to provide for you, fyi], and i have an under-desk treadmill [which i had to pay for myself, which i do not regret in the slightest] for tasks which really need a lot of effort to power through.

at home, i have an adjustable desk which i use as a standing desk or which i sit at while using an under-desk bike [which i use when i'm likely to get stuck hyper-focusing on something and need not to be - like if i'm writing fic but i need to meet up with friends at a certain time - because it's really uncomfortable and it therefore compels me to get up] or an exercise ball [the effort of not falling off really helps with concentration].

obviously, these types of movement are possible for me because i'm not physically disabled - it will look different for everyone, but any level of physical movement [including using fidget toys] helps with time management by improving focus.

5. body-doubling

this is a classic adhd-and-productivity thing, which means having someone physically with you while you work. they're not there to supervise you [or indeed to engage with you at all] - they're working on their own things - but the way that the adhd brain is primed for pattern recognition [and is very good at mimicry] means that you end up falling into the same rhythm as the other person.

if you need to complete something in a finite amount of time, then having someone you can body-double with is really useful, because you're less likely to get distracted from or overwhelmed by the task at hand. similarly, having a double helps prevent you getting stuck hyper-focusing.

6. owning my shit

everyone - even the most neurotypical of people - is late, or misses deadlines, or forgets meetings, or puts off tasks sometimes. it will happen no matter how brilliant your organisational system is. it's part of life.

but if you have adhd, it's very easy to fall into "well, this is just what i'm like" thinking - both self-critically ["i can't improve this, i'm a fuck-up"] and self-indulgently ["he has no right to be angry at me for being late for his party, he knows i have adhd"]

untrue. if you struggle with time management you have a responsibility to get a grip on aspects of those struggles which inconvenience other people. you will have to be quite strict with yourself in order to do this - i've ended up in a position, for example, where i'm always extremely [and often inconveniently - i do a lot of lurking outside the function waiting until it's time to go in] early for things. this is because i know that if i give myself an inch ["oh, i can wait fifteen minutes before leaving, it'll be fine!"] then i'll take a mile ["fuck, i should have left half an hour ago"].

so too with tasks. that "you can do this later... just go on your phone for a bit" voice is the devil speaking. do not listen.

i'm afraid that i've not found this becoming more intuitive with time - i have to be constantly strict with myself, in a way that neurotypical people don't - but it's just the way it is, you just have to do your best.

be community-minded about the things you need to do, be proactive in identifying what your weak areas are and thinking about how you can get around them [as i've said, mine is being late, and so i'm always hyper-alert about not slipping into complacency around this] forgive yourself for the odd slip, say sorry without caveats to people you inconvenience, thank people who are gracious, and extend grace in turn.

7. taking every bit of help going

i'm open about my diagnosis at work - which is a piece of good fortune which isn't available to everyone.

[although, if you're uk-based, a diagnosis of adhd counts as a disability under the equality act - your employer is obligated to make reasonable adjustments for you, you can't be dismissed just for having adhd, and you are entitled to bring a claim of disability discrimination if you are not provided with reasonable adjustments. you are also entitled to apply for an access to work grant - which provides financial assistance for adjustments which fall outside of the reasonable costs your employer is legally obliged to incur.]

i have adjustments at work [not only my standing desk, but things like permission to record meetings and to have all instructions issued in writing] and i feel absolutely no shame over it. if i can get something for free from the government to make my life easier, i will take it.

i am also absolutely shameless about taking advantage of my colleagues to help with time management - using them as body doubles, or asking them to get me from my office so i'm not late to things, for example - and i take advantage of my friends and family along the same lines.

human beings are social creatures - this is literally what we're designed to do - and it's incredibly important to reject the "i owe nobody anything" paradigm [which is one of the most egregious crimes of modern, poorly-regulated therapy]. i receive support, and i repay it turn by doing things for the people who help me.

8. constantly having a little treat

i am a grown adult with three degrees and a mortgage. i have also been known to use a star chart for a little flutter of pride in myself.

if you have a time management triumph, give yourself a little treat. you deserve it.

#asks answered #general chat

[visenyaism]

Sorry not to be insane but the Renly post got me thinking and ik everyone has already beat to death the Robert and Rhaegar parallels and it's only half cooked in my brain rn however I think the Viserys and Dany dynamic parallels to Stannis and Renly are soooo insane actually. When for so long the two younger siblings have nothing to rely on but each other and they idolize but also resent the idea of their older brother in their head and also like Robert dying without true heirs thrusting Stannis back into the role of heir he hadn't had in years and is similar in my head to Viserys being thrust into being the heir after the war bc his brothers kids are killed. Baratheons fucked up dynamics under explored fr fr.

hmmmmm so i think they definitely have the idea of being a child/teenager and suddenly having to raise your little sibling in common but I think they’re sort of operating on two different character foil binaries:

Stannis around they both went through this period of seige and starvation where Renly only had Stannis and then they both responded to that differently. Stannis has his whole thing about discipline and self deprivation, whereas renly dealt with it by leaning really hard into excess and attention-seeking.  the love and power that they have is conditional on Roberts love, but the big problem for them is just that it’s unequal between them?

like in contrast the thing that viserys and daenerys are trying to cope with is not having ANY power or privilege because it was forcibly taken from them when they were ousted. Viserys copes with this by leaning into his own misrembered family history and the targaryen self-mythologization as dragons and superior beings, because he cannot give up the idea that he is destined to be king and everyone will defer him one day and then they’ll all be sorry. Daenerys copes with a childhood of not having any power or status by trying to elevate the powerless and eliminate systemic injustices once she GETS a ton of power.

Most important takeaway for me is that Stannis uses his magical shadow child to kill Renly in this act of pride and sense of duty winning out over love whereas Daenerys names, her magical dragon child after her big brother to carry on his memory in what’s very clearly an act of forgiveness.

#stannis thinks he’s better than renly because of his lifestyle choices viserys thinks he’s better than dany because he’s a man and she’s not #asoiaf #man. dany naming viserion so that he can have a second chance to look out for her like he didn’t…..it’s so sad. i loved him once.

[klbwriting]

Broken Prism

Chapter 15

Fandom: Red Hood

Pairing: Jason Toddxfemale!Reader

Warnings: none

Summary: Jason and Bruce finally talk and YN and Jason finally take another step

Jason stayed two days at Wayne manor before finally leaving his old room. He knew he needed to talk to Bruce, but he hated the idea. He didn’t want a lecture from his ‘dad’ but he kept repeating the part of his poison induced dream in his head. The video Bruce was watching. He remembered being 12, just starting his tenure as Robin, that was even before Dick had shown back up to work things out with Bruce. Jason had wanted to be normal, play sports at school, but he never knew how so Bruce took him out to the basketball court on the grounds to show him.

Jason had been nervous; Bruce was a pretty demanding taskmaster in training so he thought he would have to suffer the same learning basketball. He was surprised when instead of having to run a mile or do dozens of pushups before starting Bruce just showed him how to dribble correctly. For the next two hours they played and for the first time since Bruce took him in, he felt like a kid, not a vigilante. He had no worries that day, it was the best day of his life. That was the video in his dream that Bruce watched, the video where he really felt like he was Bruce Wayne’s son and not just his ward or his charity project. He hoped that Bruce remembered that day, that he really thought Jason was his son still.

“Jason, are you feeling better?” Bruce asked as Jason entered his office. He motioned for Jason to sit, and he did, stretching out, trying to seem casual. He saw the trace of a smile on Bruce’s face and frowned. Bruce knew, he always knew. Jason was putting on a show, pretending this whole thing didn’t terrify him but it did. The guy could face down Poison Ivy, Two-Face, Penguin, any of them without an ounce of concern but in his dad’s office about to have a heart to heart and he was ready to hide in a closet. He shifted in his seat, trying to think of a good answer. “Be honest.”

“I feel physically better, but mentally, I’m fucked,” he said. Bruce looked like he wanted to comment on his language but thought better of it. Jason appreciated that.

“What’s on your mind?”

“I had a dream while I was under and I killed you,” he said honestly. Bruce’s eyebrows went up, but he nodded.

“Common theme in dreams is killing of those around you. I understand your inner self wanting truly wanting to get rid of the Batman legacy…”

“I didn’t kill Batman. I killed Bruce Wayne,” Jason said. This surprised Bruce. “And I think its because I didn’t want held down by the memory of you being a shitty father.” This struck Bruce. He knew he hadn’t been a great father to his sons. He tried his best, he was too strict with Dick, too loose with Jason, yet unable to separate Jason from Dick in his mind, and he hoped with Tim he was doing better. He tried to let Tim be his own person while guiding him, not forcing him into a box like he did with Dick or Jason. “Do you remember when you taught me how to play basketball?” Jason felt his heart warm as Bruce’s eyes lit up with remembrance.

“Yes, you were good after you stopped trying to throw the ball as hard you could at the hoop,” Bruce said. “I don’t think I saw you smile so much after that.”

“I…I want to rejoin the family,” Jason said, almost whispering as the words hurt to say out loud. “But I have conditions.” Bruce sat back. “You can’t tell me not to kill.”

“Jason…that is fundamental to how the Bats operate. You cannot go killing anyone you get mad at…” Bruce began but stopped himself when he saw Jason gripping the arms of the chair, ready to bolt. He took a breath.

“I didn’t say I was going to kill anyone and everyone. I don’t even do that now. I shoot to injure mostly. But if I ever see Joker and have a shot, I’m taking it. I’m doing what your cowardly ass couldn’t. And if someone threatens YN they are dead, I don’t care if its someone like Ivy or you even. Someone hurts her they die. You have to live with that if you want me around,” Jason said. He was sitting up straighter, ready to flee if Bruce didn’t agree. Bruce stared at him long and hard, trying to reconcile who this Jason was with who Bruce wanted him to be. The thought of losing Jason again, especially when he could actually save him this time was too much.

“Fine,” he said. “But I have conditions also.” Jason sat back a little again, listening. “You need to see someone, talk to someone. I have a doctor that we all speak to when in Gotham, Dr. Thompkins, she is great. Or, if you’d rather I can find someone else that doesn’t know our history.”

“Ya, YN told me I should get therapy and she’s probably right. Don’t know who is really qualified to treat a zombie’s mental illness but sure I can talk to this Dr Thompkins,” he said. He looked down. “I’m not giving up my territory, I won’t try to take more, that’ll cause some problems, but I’m not letting crime get how it was in North Gotham.” Bruce had to take a moment again to think. Being a crime lord wasn’t what he hoped for any of his boys, but he had to admit Jason was doing a good job there and maybe he could eventually convince him to relinquish power and instead of being a crime lord he could be a protector again. What Bruce didn’t understand was Jason already was the protector, just not in a way that Bruce could understand.

“Fine, but maybe someday we can revisit that conversation?” Bruce said. Jason nodded. “And I would like to offer you to live here again. And, if she would agree YN is of course welcomed to live here also. I have a room for her any time, and you can have your room if you want it.”

“I don’t know if she would want to move in, but I’m willing, would be nice to have a proper bed again,” he said. He couldn’t wait to find Pride and Prejudice and read it in the tub. The silence that fell between the two was awkward, and Jason wanted to bolt.

“I’m sorry Jason,” Bruce said softly. He looked to his father surprised. “I failed you, more than once.” Jason sighed.

“I failed you too,” he said. Bruce shook his head.

“No, you were the child, you are supposed to fail and I, as the parent am supposed to support you after that, but many times I didn’t. I let my anger and my judgements dictate how I treated you. I failed you long before Joker got to you,” he said. Jason sniffed, feeling some tears coming to his eyes. Maybe it wasn’t him, maybe he wasn’t always the failure.

“Um, ya, no worries. I forgive you,” Jason said. Bruce nodded. “I’m going to go get some things from around town. I’ll be back.”

“You can put your gear in the cave when you get back, we will get a stand for you,” Bruce said. Jason nodded and headed out the door. He needed to get his gear, collect from his guys, and then he was going to see YN.

You had left Wayne manor that morning, needing to get some work done. You had spent the day catching up on contacts, reporting to Jim, and just trying to keep your mind off Jason. You didn’t want to bother him too much with all the shit he was going through at the moment. He needed space, not you. At least, you told yourself that. He was a hard read even for you sometimes and the last two days that he spent at Wayne manot he had been keeping his thoughts to himself. When you were there, he was quiet, sometimes you guys watched TV, or read together, but there wasn’t a lot of talking. You wanted to know what was going through his head, was he going to stay with Bruce? Would he disappear again? Did he want you to even be in his life anymore? Something had happened while he had been sleeping and you weren’t sure what, but you worried he looked at you differently now and you weren’t sure you liked that. Now that you were home, in your room, you weren’t sure how to distract yourself until you heard a knock at your window. Red Hood stood there, geared up like he was on patrol.

“What are you doing?” you asked, opening the window and letting him in. He looked at your door, so you went and locked it before he took off his helmet. You stared at him again, enjoying the color in his cheeks, the almost red tint to his lips, the brown of his eyes. They could be green in a moment, or maybe even blue, depending on the mood he was in.

“I wanted to tell you that I talked to Bruce, we um, I think we worked some things out,” he said. You smiled wide and sat on your bed, patting for him to sit. He sat next to you, and you saw him look at The Outsiders gathering dust on your nightstand, his post it still attached. “Thanks, I want to finish it this time.”

“So what did Bruce say?” you asked. He took a breath, seeming to be gearing up to something.

“He offered me a doctor, to talk to. I said yes. He offered to let me move back in, I said yes. He offered for you to move in…” Jason trailed off and you looked at him, wondering what he thought about that. “I told him I wasn’t sure; I don’t want to force you to deal with all my shit all the time.”

“I’d have to let my roommates know and probably help them pay for this place until someone else can move in,” you said. You didn’t tell Jason that Bruce had offered again for you to move in and you had agreed this time. It would be a good move not only to make sure that Jason didn’t vanish, but also in terms of your job. That Batcomputer had so much information on it you could use and there was built in protection there. Plus, you could go to fancy parties and listen in on the goings-on of the rich and morally corrupt of Gotham. It was a win-win.

“Are you sure you want to get that involved?” Jason asked. He looked worried and it warmed your heart to think about him being concerned for you, caring about you so much.

“Jason, I already told you I am in this, I am your soulmate, and I don’t want that to change. I’m not going to run from you, I’m not going to leave you,” you said, and you felt him sag in relief, moving to hug you close. You held him to you, fingers tangling into his hair.

“Thank you,” he whispered against your neck, and you shivered a little at his breath on you. He pulled back and looked at you and you saw his eyes flick to your lips. You took the chance, leaning in and catching his lips with yours. You felt an explosion in your mind, fireworks going off in every shade as he kissed you back, gripping your back and pulling you closer to him. You wanted the kiss to keep going, to see where it would stop, or if it would stop, but an alarm went off in his helmet. He looked towards it and then back at you. “Duty calls.” He smiled at you, pressed another quick kiss to your lips and put on the helmet, waving as he darted out the window and grappled into the night.

#jason todd x y/n #jason todd x you #jason todd x reader #jasontodd #jason todd #red hood x you #red hood x reader #redhood #red hood #red hood x y/n #brokenprism

[melishade]

Number 8?

This ask game

Eren getting examined by Ratchet in the War Timeline after the trial. Kinda talked about in: Part 7: Eren’s relationship with the Autobots

Eren grew tense when the orange and white titan approached him, and a blue thin light emerged from his arm. The light got closer to him, and Eren tried to back away, but the light quickly flew up and down his body before receding back into his arm. Eren was surprised at how painless it was, but it still felt weird. Eren was also weirded out at the fact that the titan's arm...opened up?

"Well...his vitals appear to be normal," Ratchet remarked, placing a servo under his chin, "There's nothing here that would indicate any sort of anomalies."

Eren grunted when Hanji grabbed his mouth and opened it wide. "His tooth grew back after Levi kicked his face in!"

"Even so, I'm not picking up any readings or changes in his bodily function," Ratchet explained.

Eren didn't like the way Hanji's face contorted into a grin. "Then perhaps his abilities need to be in use in order to detect a change! I have ideas-!" Hanji yelped when Mike dragged the squad leader back, freeing Eren from Hanji's grip.

"Calm down," He ordered, causing Hanji to whine.

"Do those three know anything about this?" Erwin asked. Erwin should have stopped himself when he noticed the way Miko's face was gleaming with delight, while Jack and Rafael still stared in disbelief.

"Maybe like...in movies or TV shows...," Jack trailed off when he noticed Erwin, Mike, Hanji, Levi, and Eren staring in confusion, "Books."

"So fictional," Erwin concluded.

"Yeah." Jack nodded.

"I can't believe he has anime superpowers!" Miko squealed to Rafael.

"What the fuck is she talking about?" Levi asked.

"Looks, it's something she watches. I'm still trying to learn about it," Bulkhead answered.

"Besides the point, Eren's situation is completely unheard of in both humans and Cybertronian standards," Ratchet explained, "For humans, the idea of transformation into anything outside of their biological structure is strictly fictional. Mainly for entertainment purposes."

"But you guys transform?" Hanji retorted.

"Transformation is a biological function for all Cybertronians," Ratchet explained, "To not have the ability of transformation would arguably be considered a disability among our people. What Cybertronians cannot do; however, is regenerate. If we find the correct parts, we can repair limbs, but to regrow them and other vital organs is impossible."

"So we're all in the dark about Eren?" Arcee assumed.

"Unfortunately, that is the case," Ratchet declared.

Eren didn't like this. He should feel some relief that his body appeared to be normal, but his tooth grew back, so that was an indicator that something was wrong. On top of that, everyone here kept on talking about him like he wasn't even here. Doesn't he get a say in this?

Optimus noticed how uncomfortable Eren looked as the Autobots and the humans continued talking about the teen's condition. Everyone was practically ignoring him. Yes, Eren's power was new to them all and everyone was trying to figure out what that meant, but Eren must have been terrified more than anyone else.

"I could try to upgrade my scanner to try and pick up differences from a normal human and-!"

"Perhaps we should continue this discussion once we have settled into a base of operations," Optimus suggested, "It has been a tumultuous few days for all of us."

Erwin saw Optimus' gaze directed towards Eren, and he noticed how tense the teen looked. "I suppose this could be continued tomorrow."

(Okay, #70 has been asked. Everything else is free game.)

#attack on prime #transformers prime #attack on titan #asks #send me asks #aot #shingeki no kyojin #snk #ao3 #tfp #what if the war continued on aop aka the war timeline #tfp ratchet #ratchet #eren jaeger #hanji zoe #mike zacharias #tfp autobots #erwin smith #jack darby #miko nakadai #maccadam #macadam #maccadams #writing dialogue #dialogue prompt #dialogue prompts #dialogue #tfp optimus #optimus prime #tfp arcee

[thewolfpackwrites]

This is going to sound aggressive but I promise it's just because I'm passionate about this and not because I'm flaming anyone or trying to shit on their headcanons/force my narrative down.

ANYWAY:

Light is severely fucking traumatized by his father (he even calls him "dad". DAD. Light being informal with someone like Soichiro??) basically calling him a murderer, a monster, and that they'll both meet each other in Hell before quite literally turning the gun on him.

Yes sure he plays it off quickly because it's Yagami fucking Light and he always regains his composure quickly (especially when he knows someone is watching, especially L), but you can't tell me it doesn't haunt him even when he regains his memories. He has night terrors and might even had some delayed panic attacks after they returned to base.

You can say Kira didn't care/barely cared about Soichiro dying but for the rest of the chapter they hide his eyes and Ryuk doesn't say SHIT. He's silent not just because there are other people around but also because he's silly, not stupid - he knows not to overstep that boundary after the shit Light did to Penber after his father called Kira evil.

You can't be bound and watched 24/7 for almost two months and then have your father pull this shit and just go back to living normally without ever thinking about it again (unless he deeply suppressed that memory and as much as Light can handle immediate stress - he cannot handle a consistent build up, it shows up well with how he snaps like 100 times), especially when you're still put under 24/7 surveillance while you really think you're innocent and start gaslighting yourself. Yes I know Yotsuba act Light was correct but HE DOESN'T KNOW THAT.

Look at it. You gave it dissociation. Everything about that operation was illegal and sadistic towards Light even if Kira-Light set himself up to it. Kira did a lot of things that were self-destructive and damaging just to get his way and/or survive and while yes he's a mass murderer with basically no remorse (He loved his family and I'll die on that hill) but we need to remember he's still a human and he does, by some miracle, has feelings and that guy goes through such traumatizing things like Misa threatening to do irrational things that could blow his cover, threatening innocent women's lives, and Rem threatening *his* life making him suddenly responsible for another killer, being confined under pretty damn inhumane and dehumanizing conditions, being led to believe his own father was planning a murder suicide with a girl he felt protective of, that felt protective of him too, Misa's screaming and begging and then gaslighting himself on and off and having to baby L's depression to find the real Kira -

He puts up with SO MUCH and still manages to forge small human connections and not lose all of his remaining sanity/compassion and now I'm just repeating myself so.

Light is traumatized and while he's a terrible shitty person he didn't deserve half the shit that was done to him, memories intact or not.

#death note #yagami light

[peridot-tears]

I'm actually FASCINATED by the role of New York gangs in AC: Rogue. To me, a born-and-raised NYer, gangs are a recent development going back to the 1850s because frankly, that's as far as our oral histories usually trace; that's the earliest major wave of immigration. Most old New York families don't go further back.

The gangs weren't completely wiped out until the 90s, and by "wiped out," I mean they still exist, but the end result of government crackdown was that they no longer operate in the open the way they used to, and their methods of operation have changed. In the 1950s-80s, they extorted money via racketeering (what you see in movies when a gang member comes to a business and offers "protection" in exchange for money; reject it, and the member and his goons destroy your business or threaten your life) and had shootouts on the streets. Nowadays, it's more likely to be money laundering.

Needless to say, we can say with full confidence and a sense of black-and-white morality, that gangs are Bad, because of how much violence they encourage within the community.

BUT, there are certain things that aren't as black-and-white, because gangs usually exist to fill the needs of a society that the "legal" methods cannot meet. You feel powerless? You band together and intimidate other people, even if it becomes violent. Isn't that how Jacob formed the Rooks?

I want to sidebar about a great example of gangs filling unmet needs in what are shitty, harmful methods that would not be met at all otherwise: Human trafficking.

I'm not defending human trafficking by any means, but I would like to examine the conditions under which people are trafficked, their role in NYC, and the deeper implications in AC Rogue.

We know that smugglers are exploitative. The smugglers who lead North Koreans across the border into China and Mexicans into the United States demand huge sums of money from migrants (let's use "migrants" in this case since we're covering a lot of different groups who leave their homes for different reasons). These migrants pay this exorbitant amount to take a journey that they might not even live to see the end of.

However, we can understand that people who decide to take such a journey usually feel that this chance for a different life is better than staying in their current conditions. And that they are so desperate or at the end of their rope that this may be the best and only option. There is no other way to guarantee leaving for a better place.

The most glaring example of this in my mind is Sister Ping, who smuggled people into New York from her native province in China for years. She ran one of the biggest operations in the city; people died under her charge after paying basically what would have been a year's salary in the US. And yet, when Sister Ping passed, people flooded the streets of Chinatown to pay their respects. Because she granted them passage to the United States.

So yes. These things are bad, but people do end up using gang "services" because they could not acquire what they need otherwise.

But enough about Old New York. What about Old, Old New York? Like 1750s New York?

AC Rogue is not about the nuances of gang culture, so Hope Jensen's operations in New York outside of smuggling and experimenting on poison are pretty nebulous. Shay is supposed to be the complicated "hero" -- I would generously say anti-hero -- of Rogue who seeks to right the wrongs committed by Assassins. So he's presented as being in the right for crippling her supposed (we never get an actual confirmation, and Shay at this point only expects the worst out of the Assassins after their fuck-ups) plan to release poison gas on New York.

Poison gas aside, because of Shay's perspective, we are introduced to the gangs as criminals who extorted the Finnegans, but I wonder what other operations they ran? Were they also smuggling people into the city? Was Hope extorting businesses? Did she put money back into the city in other ways, ways we didn't see because we're looking at it through Shay's perspective? What were the needs that Old Old New York society that the gangs needed to fill?

We're arguably the hero for putting down criminals because of Shay and Monro, but I wonder if the formation of the Rooks in Syndicate would have looked very different if I were playing as a bystander or Assassin defector.

And morality debate aside, I'm very, very excited to look deeper into the Old Old New York gangs. They're like. The Grandfather of the Grandfather of the Godfather of the Modern NYC.

#long post #cw human trafficking #ac rogue #shay patrick cormac #shay cormac #shay #ac shay #assassins creed #assassin's creed #hope jensen #tears falling like peridots

[ask-artsy-oncie]

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Disney TVA isn't a good avenue for story-based shows because it doesn't care about good storytelling. Telling a quality story isn't the network's goal, so they clash with this genre of show way more often than not.

Like, there's a reason why episodic, slice-of-life shows tend to last so long on their channels and also usually exist with much less controversy - when you're working with the smallest snippets of story that executives can demand you drop if they're not "safe" or "consistent with the brand", all without really impacting an over-arching plot, you gain a lot more staying power than a show where leaking a single episode, or "accidentally" airing episodes out of order, or rushing the ending due to sudden cancelation can actually ruin the viewing experience.

When you get a company that offers you a "choice" between a season 3 or a movie, a company that carelessly leaks information, a company that cancels you when you need more screen time to wrap up certain plot points properly, you suffocate your showrunner and your crew when they're just trying to make it all work. Gravity Falls, Ducktales, Amphibia, and The Owl House were ALL victims of this network's shitty practices (Star VS was its own can of worms, that I don't feel escaped these practices but also had other problems that affected it more, especially since it very miraculously got more screen time than any of the other shows mentioned) and their stories suffered for it at various points of the shows' airing.

I have said this - SO MANY TIMES to the Ducktales fandom specifically lol - but when you decide to engage with a story-based DTVA series, you're very, VERY likely going to have to meter your expectations just solely due to it being produced by Disney. Because Disney has now a long history of mistreating and mishandling its story-based shows. Now that The Owl House has ended and people are talking about this again, I want to spread that reminder around, again:

It's okay to criticize these shows and their ability to tell a story properly, but PLEASE try to understand the context and working conditions the crew was under when they were making it, when you're drafting your criticism. A lot, and I mean a LOT, of the problems people complain about the most (and often blame the crew for) are issues that none of them had control over, or were simply doing their best to work around whenever Disney steps in to fuck things up. If you're going to engage with public criticism, or, more worryingly, engage with the crew on social media, I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to understand how the behind-the-scenes of the show operated.

It just genuinely boggles my mind sometimes - we live in an era where people working in the Television Animation Industry have more of a voice than they EVER had, to detail the issues and constraints networks have dealt to them. Social media has allowed so much mistreatment and mishandling of crews and shows to come to light. And yet!!! So many people are given this avenue of understanding!! And they don't!!!!! Listen!!!!!!! And instead they use it to yell at showrunners and crewmembers.

I'm begging y'alls to at least develop some pattern recognition with this godforsaken network. Please do that at least.

#Long post #Rant #Vent #I'm not even sure if I should tag this as any show lol #Disney #There I'll do that lol #It's so frustrating when a story-based animated show gets popular #And then the story or general quality suffers because of REALLY TEXTBOOK NETWORK MISTREATMENT #But like because no one bothers to learn about the industry they just blame the crew #I'm so tired of it #SU was also 100% a victim of this. Just not in the same way. #Since CN has its own fucken issues and history of practices. #It's a mess. It's a mess. Why was I cursed with a brain hard-wired for animation. #I could have had a brain hard-wired for a better industry.

[audhdnight]

Anyone else really fucking sick of the whole edgelord “we don’t need school it’s all bullshit when will I even need to know any of this” crowd who will also immediately turn around and violently shame and attack anyone who says something misinformed or asks a question that they deem to be “common knowledge”???

Like yeah, I remember highschool. It sucked, but not because of what I was learning. It sucked because teachers are overworked and underpaid/under supported, and the school system doesn’t give half a shit about disabled kids or kids with different neurological conditions or really any of the kids.

We do need schools. Whatever issues the system as a whole has, it needs to be reformed, not done away with. You cannot sit and gripe about how we don’t need any of these history classes because it’s all stuff you don’t want to know anyway, and then go absolutely batshit insane when someone doesn’t know about Pearl Harbor.

Because those people aren’t stupid. They are being intentionally misled, neglected, misinformed, or all three. They are ignorant, not because they chose it but because someone else chose it to further their own desires.

Ignorance leads to harm. Ignorance leads to manipulation. Ignorance is why we have slews of people in the US who are so scared of autism (which IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE SCARED OF) that they refuse to vaccinate their children, which is a form of medical neglect. They are actively endangering people they care about because they have been lied to by political parties and religious leaders who benefit from uneducated mobs.

Ignorance is how you get cults. Ignorance is how people get taken advantage of. Ignorance is how you get genocide. ONE person decides they want power and they use the lack of education to amass followers who will support them blindly because they don’t know any better.

Everyone is appalled when ex-Mormons get on the internet and talk about all the things they had to learn as adults, who by all accounts should have known those things by the time they were fifteen. People lose their fucking minds when ex-Mormons mention they didn’t know how babies were made until after they got married at like thirty. I saw someone make an entire six minute video about how he’s pretty sure all these deconstructers are lying for clout online, because how could they possibly not know?

They don’t know because they were intentionally kept in the dark. That is how high-control religions and cults operate. That is how you keep people under your thumb.

You ask how Christians could possibly think that evolution isn’t real? As someone who was raised that way, I’ll tell you.

From the moment my education started, I was fed misinformation. In kindergarten I learned about how God made dinosaurs, but they all died in the flood and the earth was too damaged afterward to support such big species even after they came off the ark. In middle school I watched Ken Ham and Kent Hovind videos about how carbon-dating is all bogus and if any scientist tries to use it to debate you, you can say “Aha! I knew you were wrong!” and end the discussion there. In highschool I took apologetics, where we learned how to “defend our faith” by constantly moving the goalposts when we spoke to atheists. We were taught that “What happened to the Missing Link?” is a gotcha that no scientist would ever be able to dispute, and so obviously we were the ones in the right. I was told at every possible opportunity that Bill Nye is literally the antichrist, that he doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about, and that any Creationist (Christian “scientists”) could debate him into the ground because he’s so stupid.

I didn’t question any of it because that wasn’t an option. It was *literally* all I knew. I had such a fundamental misunderstanding of science as a whole that when I was exposed to true scientific facts and processes and studies for the first time, I could scoff and say “Don’t they know that’s not even a real thing? How ridiculous that they’d think I would believe it!”

I’m doing the work now to re-educate myself. I have learned so much in just two years that I genuinely can’t speak to half of my family because it makes them so angry. And when I hear people talk about anything happening or existing “billions of years ago”, my knee-jerk reaction is still “The earth is nowhere near that old! That’s how I know they’re lying!” I have to intentionally reprogram my thinking every. single. time. that I engage with scientific literature or media.

It’s hard. It’s frustrating. And it all could’ve been avoided if my own parents hadn’t also been misled their whole lives. I’m not going to make excuses for them as adults, because learning and doing better is your own responsibility once you’re not a kid. But I will say that if their parents hadn’t also been misinformed, they wouldn’t have learned the same lies that they later went on to teach me and my siblings. It’s a vicious cycle, one that is designed to keep people ignorant. It is purposely designed not to have an out.

So yeah, I don’t really know how to end this post but please for the love of god, have some empathy for people who don’t know “common knowledge” facts about science or history. Most likely, it’s not their fault. And the way they push back at you with nothing but misinformation and a dream has been programmed into them probably since birth. This is why we need education, why we need schools, and why it is so vitally important that we as a society do the work to reform our education system.

#I still have even more thoughts on this but it’s getting long now #so yeah #please feel free to ask any questions you have #I’d love to help people understand the fundie methods of education better #ex fundie #deconstructing christianity #deconstructing religion #deconstructing faith #ken ham #bill nye #creationism #science #education reform #school system #long post #text post #things that fucking matter #nightramblestm

[praecurokat]

Ted Lasso Finale Thoughts- So Long, Farewell... (I do not know what to think!)

this episode being an hour and 15 minutes..after being released at midnight... that's just cruel.. my brain cannot operate properly under such conditions..

congrats Tedbecca shippers! oop watched more.. sorry Tedbecca shippers...

most normal Beard and Jane appearance in the series at Rebecca’s house in the beginning

writers were bringing the dramatic flair in this episode! first that thing with Isaac dressed as a judge in the beginning, and then a musical number! idk how i feel about that..

speaking of the musical number, i must regretfully inform the masses that idk what the song is from.. pls lmk in the comments.. i see that it relates to the episode title

ah yes Jane acting totally normal by shredding Beard's passport.. total ✨ marriage material ✨

Trent's shirt says sat 17 may.. could this be significant?? everything in this show is..

"You know, that might be a tasty little treat for the diamond dogs.” “No. No. No. No!”-Roy, soon to become a Diamond Dog in a moment of desperation

wait did Trent name his manuscript the lasso way awww

“I only got into this to ruin Rupert's life, and he seems to be doing a pretty good job of that himself.”- Rebecca

So. Many. Throwbacks. Keeley saying “Is everybody decent?”, Jamie using lots of axe body spray like S1, the cleaner walking in on everyone, and way more i can’t think of

the complicated web that is royjamiekeeley is still being spun.. in the last episode..

“Must be awful for them, lying awake at night, haunted by how fucking easy they’ve had it!”- Mae, to Rebecca’s mom

Trent watching Ted read his book.. heart eyes emoji

the way Ted looks at him.. i meannn is this even subtext anymore?

“So you do laugh, but you don't do it until page.. 43?! And it wasn't even a big laugh!”- Trent, while Ted is reading his manuscript

"Whatever happens on Sunday, I want you to know I’m proud of you. All the work you’ve put in this year."- Roy to Jamie, before proceeding to fistfight with him later

Both Roy and Jamie seem very contemplative this ep. What are they thinking??

i am so concerned about the current royjamie feud over Keeley... what is gonna happen here???

“Would you please stay?” and “I know, I just had to try.”- Rebecca, about Ted

lmao Keeley kicking both Roy and Jamie out after they asked her to choose

“You stay put, Trenthouse magazine. You’re part of the squad now.”- Ted, to Trent

“Yeah. Someone better. Can people change?”- Roy, also this is a central tenet of this damn show

“I don’t think we change per se, as much as we just learn to accept who we’ve always been, you know?” -Trent’s most beautiful quote thus far

aww Nate finally got his diamond dogs reaction to Jade

George being Rupert’s coach sent me.. like you Really couldn’t find anyone else?

I hate Rupert but I love his dramatic slay coat swish moments.. again reminds me of Uther’s drama queen antics

“I prefer rugby, there’s just more grown men throwing other grown men into the air like children. And blood. Which is nice." - Barbara

Bloodthirsty and mysterious? Barbara is a serial killer or vampire confirmed.

“Never forget, I am always inside you.” -Zava’s note, which also came with a giant avocado

Zorro has truly entered his superhero arc and Dani Rojas is his genius creator

the fourth thing has to be 'Believe'.. aand it was? Right?

AFC Richmond Women’s club.. i sense a spinoff show opportunity…. or they could just do a show about Trent

George has begun a redemption arc!! (Telling Rupert to fuck off)

Rupert's desperation and misery at the end is not entirely unreminiscent of Rebecca at the start of S1

yesss Colin got his kiss on the pitch!!

haha the same? person from S1E1 taking pics w Ted in the airport

damn so Beard’s going home too, thought Jane would've locked him away in a safe or smth… nvm

omg Amsterdam man has a child.. hmmm Rebecca’s prophecy may still be fulfilled

Roy becoming manager feels natural

Ofc Trent renamed his book ‘The Richmond Way’… never let them know your next move

that montage at the end…so much to process....

beardjane wedding marking the end of the series.. good or bad omen for the future? i think bad

seems very fitting the series ending the opposite of how it began.. Rupert's life ruined, Rebecca in love and not owner of the club, Roy and Jamie healing and bonding w others around them, and Ted back in America with family.

#ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso #afc richmond #trent crimm #roy kent #rebecca welton #isaac mcadoo #coach beard #jamie tartt #keeley jones #ted lasso s3 #ted lasso finale #anotherofmybrilliantthoughts

[sapphire-weapon]

Hey, welcome back! I was reading through your carrd... do you not work at the haunted museum anymore? What happened?

I mean. I never really left tumblr. Yall could've messaged me still if you wanted. But thanks.

And lmao no I don't work there anymore. I haven't for months.

As for what happened, well. I don't want to get into the weeds about it.

I'll tell you what, though. Z*k is very lucky that Elon Musk shut down Twitter Blue before I was able to get my hands on it and make a fake account for him, because I was ready to roll out some banger tweets like:

"The Nevada Labor Commission keeps getting on my ass about Haunted Museum employees not getting their breaks, but they don't understand that when there's demons in the building, they sometimes don't let you leave."

"Guys the Haunted Museum is not being mismanaged. You can't fuck up managing something if you're never there to manage it to begin with."

"Most businesses would probably be upset if they lost 7/8 of their staff and 3/4 of their management team in under a year, but that's honestly pretty good for a house full of angry spirits."

"I don't have poor judgment. That's why I fire anyone who tries to tell me I'm wrong."

"If the Haunted Museum lasts another year, I should get all of the credit, but if it goes under I shouldn't be blamed at all."

"I don't understand why my staff keeps complaining that I should pay into the health insurance offered at the Haunted Museum. It's only $400 a month. That's nothing."

"I'm an excellent judge of character. I've never put anyone in management who's ever been toxic to me. Maybe affected employees should just be more like me and they won't have a problem."

"Don't listen to people who try to say that pareidolia is a thing. It's not a thing. I'd stake my career on it."

"Stop saying that the Haunted Museum is a cult. Just because I demand uncritical praise and dictate who my employees can and cannot talk to in their personal lives doesn't mean I'm running a cult."

"PTO? What's that? Phantoms Throwing Oranges?"

"My employees at the Haunted Museum are so annoying. It's always 'hostile work environment' this and 'illegal working conditions' that. Take it up with the Dybbuk. It has nothing to do with me."

"I thought that giving my employees more money was going to get them to shut up, but they just keep complaining. I don't get what the problem is. What else matters at a job?"

"Someone tried to tell me today that I should just let my General Manager make personnel decisions and give him free reign to run operations as he sees fit, but I don't pay him for that. I pay him to enact my will without me having to be there."

"I know that some people aren't happy with the changes at the Haunted Museum, but don't believe the people who say that they happened because I can't retain staff. It's just that nobody wants to work anymore."

"I'm not wrong. I'M NOT WRONG!!!!!"

Just off the top of my head. If I sat down and really thought about it, I'd be able to come up with a lot more.

And he can't claim libel because none of it is untrue.

[ask-bigsistermoon]

❇ hey Moon i made a very bad mistake. I mean its kinda not my fault but still it is my fault to some extent . i was messing around with how adaptable and good at surviving to say it the simplest. i can make my avatars because i was bored . well the answer is : EXTREMELY ADAPTABLE and well i made 3? new avatars... Accualy 2 avatars all of the avatars i made were put to a test of how good at surviving they are . their goal was : SURVIVE UNDER ANY CONDITIONS. All of them passed with 100% . to put them on that test i needed to cut my connection to them making them seperate enteties that can operate without me pozzesing them . i. Was observing each one of them with my overseer avatar to see how well are they at what i made them good at . after the test i regained the connection to them and they stopped being a seperate entity. I i would like to add that i was kinda basing these avatars off creatures from my world and other universes . well theres where the mistake occured or rather i say an error. The third avatar. The one that was doing WAY better than the first and second and must i say it was too good at surviving and adapting went rouge . by that i mean i was unable to regain connection to it - im not able to control it , the " avatar" became its own thing. i made a monster Moon. i didnt even wanna use this avatar i was planning on getting rid of it because it was just... Really hard to control it even before cutting connection. the ' avatar' looks as if Carrion moster from Carrion had an unholy child with Rot and some poor slugcat , its as big as a Miros bird at least the main body because the Legs can change their lenth ,it had the ability of the weird insects from the paincones - it can immobilize a red lizard in seconds , it also has the ability of Spitter Spider-paralizing darts , and big spider - it can revive itself for a short amout of time , and of course Long legs great hearing and the legs if it grabs you therses no escapin it , it also has way too many fucking mouths and eyes it grew them after i lost connection to it , it also can regenerate by eating . it can eat anything , its really smart too . i pray to whatever cruel god there is that this thing cant reproduce even tho i dont believe in god . its currently near Pebbles leg in the memory crypts massacaring Miros birds and i think its heading his way. This avatar is REALLY agressive and it should be killed under any circumstances . killing it in a way that it wont revive itself with its ability should do the trick because i didnt connect these avatars to the cycle before the test at least i hope ,i didnt connect them . i sent a similar message to NSH and a warning to pebbles because no way in hell would he believe me if i explained it to him like i explained it to you and NSH . also i think its good to add that this thing doent give a f about the rain it does nothing to it . it just walks around like its nothing while it rains eating any poor animal that didnt menage to find shelter before the rain came . its also not blind unlike DLL heres the picture of this frobbiten spaghetti monster avatar that i took with my overseer avatar , it was kinda hard to get a good picture of it because it tried to eat the overseer avatar :

Also happy halloween 🎃 i think i should name the overseer avatar i had it for how long? A week , two weeks?? And it still doesnt have a proper name . i mean this thing doent have a name either . im gonna go warn Pebbles. Also idn how long it will the jellyfish take NSH said they will tell me when theire done❇

Oh, I see.. Im afraid I cannot help you, no matter how much I'd want to.. Quite an interesting creature tho.. Fits these seasons perfectly..

(Beautiful beast tho, 10/10. Love the shit)

#rainworld #rain world #rain world ask blog #rw #big sister moon #bigsismoon #big sis moon #bigsistermoon #looksothemoon #iterators #iterator #lookstothemoo #looks to the moon #lttm #lookstothemoon

[idkwhattitlevsblognamemeans]

May 17th, 2024

I am pissed off that my fyp on tiktok and as well as on instagram a bit is slowly letting eating disorder content in. Or maybe its not outwardly eating disorder content but it trickles in and makes me think and be inspired about disordered eating.

Heres been my past little bit:

Sideplots:

Rhodes Scholarship

Circus School (full time away from the office)

Mo Keps

I've been coming to work (in the office) like baloney? every week and I'm convinced that nobody has noticed but also maybe they have and I am the idiot?

Artem invited me to a cottage with his friends this upcoming weekend. And I don't know how the fuck I should have played that. Whatever I"ve done though has been wrong and incorrect.

I don't like how I feel like I'm an idiot when I'm around him: he makes you think about him because he doesn't think about you at all. He is not emotionally available and look at what happened to Hadrian and look at what happened to me last time *emotional unavailability* was in the chat.

I want to go to circus school and work full time tee hee hee, I need to call the union and figure some stuff out.

If you are having an issue in the workplace and are not sure of how to proceed, please contact our labour relations team at [email protected] or call ACFO-ACAF’s office toll-free number 1-877-728-0695.

I'm reading the collective agreement for my job rn, here are some highlights:

An employee shall earn vacation leave credits at the following rate for each calendar month during which the employee receives pay for at least seventy-five (75) hours:

75 hours is 2 weeks. meaning I will get credit for june and july however if I didn't split them over months, I might not have

I get 9.375 hours of vacation time a month until my 5th year of service occurs

An employee is entitled to vacation leave with pay to the extent of the employee’s earned credits but an employee who has completed six (6) months of continuous service shall receive an advance of credits equivalent to the anticipated credits for the current vacation year.

Where in any vacation year all of the vacation leave credited to an employee has not been scheduled, the unused portion of the vacation leave up to a maximum of two hundred and sixty-two decimal five (262.5) hours credit shall be carried over into the following vacation year. All vacation leave credits in excess of two hundred and sixty-two decimal five (262.5) hours will be paid at the employee’s hourly rate of pay as calculated from the classification prescribed in the employee’s certificate of appointment of the employee’s substantive position on the last day of the vacation year.

30.09 When a medical certificate is requested by the Employer, the employee will be reimbursed for the cost of the certificate, to a maximum of thirty-five dollars ($35.00), upon provision of acceptable proof, for periods of absence of three (3) consecutive days or less.

36.03 Subject to clause 36.02 and operational requirements, an employee may be granted leave without pay for the care of immediate family in accordance with the following conditions:

an employee shall notify the Employer in writing as far in advance as possible but not less than four (4) weeks in advance of the commencement date of such leave, unless, because of urgent or unforeseeable circumstances, such notice cannot be given;

leave granted under this clause shall be for a minimum period of three (3) weeks;

the total leave granted under this article shall not exceed five (5) years during an employee’s total period of employment in the public service;

leave granted for a period of one (1) year or less shall be scheduled in a manner which ensures continued service delivery.

Article 38: leave without pay for personal needs

38.01 Leave without pay will be granted for personal needs in the following manner:

subject to operational requirements, leave without pay for a period of up to three (3) months will be granted to an employee for personal needs;

subject to operational requirements, leave without pay for more than three (3) months but not exceeding one (1) year will be granted to an employee for personal needs;

an employee is entitled to leave without pay for personal needs twice (2) under each of paragraphs (a) and (b) during the employee’s total period of employment in the public service. Leave can only be granted for a second (2nd) time under each of (a) and (b) of this clause ten (10) years after the first leave was granted. Leave without pay granted under this clause may not be used in combination with maternity or parental leave without the consent of the Employer.

It feels fake that I have a government job with benefits?

I applied for some free training just now,

I just looked in HRMS and I have 24.375 hours of sick leave (3.25 days of work) and 93.75 hours of vacation time (12.5 days). also a 7.5 hours from Wednesday May 8th that I worked. altogether thats

June 14th: work from home, travel to montreal with Gianna,

June 17 - 21 is 5 days (37.5)

June 24 is Jean Baptiste day

June 25 - 28 is 4 days (30 hours)

July 1 is a holiday

July 2 - July 5 - 4 days (30 hours)

all together that 97.5, less the 7.5 hours I already worked, for a total of 90 hours requested off.

Should I ask if I should use sick days?

Also isn't there leave each year that isn't carried over?

ok Matthieu just came to my office and asked if I could do some overtime work this weekend. I asked to be compensated in vacation days (1.5 times the hours) however I am wondering if I should have taken the cash... like $300? 64,221 / 251 (average amount of working days) = $255 a day * 1.5 = $382.5 for a day of overtime.

[bookoformon]

Mormon, Chapter 6, Part 5. "The Moldering."

The epilogue to the revelation of the Temporal Plates, which states if someone breaks the law they must be prosecuted in order to break the cycle of corruption and murder, states we need to be aware of how far along are our preparations for the Hour of Judgement at any time.

To prosecute is not enough. We need to prosecute at the right time. Donald Trump cheated in the 2016 election. Everyone knows it. He should not have been allowed to do this. The Family Research Council and the Faith and Freedom Coalition and the Alliance Defending Freedom, all Pro-Life organizations which are illegal under federal law, continued to operate and perpetrate acts of domestic terrorism and organized crime against their fellow Americans for decades. The Republican Party has been trafficking in under age gay porn and prostituting underage persons as a way of extorting its members and influencing policy for decades.

The FBI and Secret Service bend over backwards to protect their secrets so our shit show of a government doesn't just come apart like sheets of cheap toilet paper in a porta-john. The result is a government that was caught by surprise when the Mormons and the Marriotts, the Waltons, Mitt Romney, Dick Cheney, George Bush, One for Israel, the Friends of Israel, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints decided to attack Israel alongside Hamas on October 7. We did not repel Russia from Ukraine, Haiti is on fire. The Border with Mexico is on fire, there are shootings, stabbings, wildfires, floods, tornadoes, and wars happening all over the world.

Even in this day and age, we are inept at self-government. We are inept because we do not examine our lives Hour by Hour and pray like we should. We do not repent and seek the Holy Spirit to help us arrest the causes of our sins and thus they get worse.

President Biden needs to arrest every member of the aforementioned terror groups and explain how the world should respond his actions. Then we need to talk about the most important oversight our lack of repentance has brought about- we have not done all we can to help the hungry, needy, homeless, and those in need medicine, surgery, and basic living conditions. Because we like to fuck around instead.

The Book of Mormon says "an incorruptible justice and mercy alone" are the missions of the government. It is time we recognized the importance of these words:

15 And it came to pass that there were ten more who did fall by the sword, with their ten thousand each; yea, even all my people, save it were those twenty and four who were with me, and also a few who had escaped into the south countries, and a few who had deserted over unto the Lamanites, had fallen; and their flesh, and bones, and blood lay upon the face of the earth, being left by the hands of those who slew them to molder upon the land, and to crumble and to return to their mother earth.

16 And my soul was rent with anguish, because of the slain of my people, and I cried:

17 O ye fair ones, how could ye have departed from the ways of the Lord! O ye fair ones, how could ye have rejected that Jesus, who stood with open arms to receive you!

18 Behold, if ye had not done this, ye would not have fallen. But behold, ye are fallen, and I mourn your loss.

19 O ye fair sons and daughters, ye fathers and mothers, ye husbands and wives, ye fair ones, how is it that ye could have fallen!

20 But behold, ye are gone, and my sorrows cannot bring your return.

21 And the day soon cometh that your mortal must put on immortality, and these bodies which are now moldering in corruption must soon become incorruptible bodies; and then ye must stand before the judgment-seat of Christ, to be judged according to your works; and if it so be that ye are righteous, then are ye blessed with your fathers who have gone before you.

22 O that ye had repented before this great destruction had come upon you. But behold, ye are gone, and the Father, yea, the Eternal Father of heaven, knoweth your state; and he doeth with you according to his justice and mercy.

Carnage always takes place in the South, where an awakening becomes understanding. Our nation and planet are struggling with both. Chapter 6 concludes stating there is nothing we can do for persons like the Republicans and Evangelicals whose sins are too intractible. They have to be dealt with and we shouldn't feel too sorry about this, no one will miss them when they are all gone. As the Prophet says "you should not have fallen."

The Values in Gematria contains more final thoughts regarding the Temporal Plates which reflect the spiritual values contained in secular laws:

15a: And it came to pass that there were ten more who did fall by the sword, with their ten thousand each; yea, even all my people, save it were those twenty and four who were with me, and also a few. The Value in Gematria is 17811, יזחאא‎ ‎ , yezhaa, "I will recognize these on the spot."

15b: A few who had deserted over unto the Lamanites, had fallen; and their flesh, and bones, and blood lay upon the face of the earth, being left by the hands of those who slew them to molder upon the land, and to crumble and to return to their mother earth. The Value in Gematria is 10100, י‎א‎אֶפֶסאֶפֶס‎‎, "Ephesus, the future."

We must obey the law, we must be willing to arrest lawbreakers, no matter who they are and maintain a free, educated, mercantile way of life. Corruption of the sort that overtook this world, the fault of the government of the United States of America, which cannot self-police and control corruption in its government is fully preventable when the law is enforced. We do not need to invent a way to do this.

Our tears cannot fix any of this but they are a good place to start.

v. 16-17: Because of the slain of my people, and I cried. The Value in Gematria is 14133, ידאגג, "will take care."

v. 18-19a: But behold, ye are fallen, and I mourn your loss. The Value in Gematria is 11645, יאודה‎, "her vocation."

v. 19b-20: But behold, ye are gone, and my sorrows cannot bring your return. The Value in Gematria is 7955, זטהה‎‎‎‎, "This is it."

v. 21a: The day soon cometh. The Value in Gematria is 8854, חחהד‎‎ ‎, "Applies to hahad, to everyone."

v. 21b: You must stand before the Judgement Seat. The Value in Gematria is 13265, יגבוה‎ ‎ ‎"I will charge, I will rise."

v. 22: He knoweth your state. The Value in Gematria is 10661, י‎ו‎וא, yv a, "You learn about the 12."

As for why the Temporal Plates were hidden by Mormon, at the time,the suggestion we arrest people for their crimes probably waxed one in popularity quite a lot. It's still a fast way to get underneath the red carpet so I understand.