Sometimes I'm like "why am I so anxious to leave the house or work jobs it doesn't make sense for me to be this tired" but then. Other times I remember this classic tweet of mine from 2022 and recall that it just has been like this in the workplace for years of my life huh
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I know there are as many religious good guys as there are religious bad guys in IDW, but I think I pinned down the reason why it feels like the most prominent religious figures are all bad guys and it's pretty much due to the worldbuilding.
Maybe my memory of the comics is just really bad, but the religious worldbuilding in IDW is....kind of trash honestly. I'm not sure there's a single religion or religious custom that doesn't exist solely to further the plot along. Like, it's one thing for the Camiens to worship the Primes and that causes a lot of stuff in exRID/OP, but what does that worship actually look like? What are their holidays, customs, religious texts? What about "spectralism" which basically the only thing we know about is the Festival of the Lost Light and some hippie color coding and aura shit? Like sure, there are characters who are religious and their beliefs come into play sometimes, but it honestly feels (especially in MTMTE) more like their religiousness only exists when it's relevant to the plot and it's just kinda. Disappointing eh. Lacking in worldbuilding. Plus the more religious a character is the more it's written as their entire personality and the driving force making them evil so it just kinda made me cringe to read honestly.
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I learned what a bullet journal was by watching a few YouTube artists set theirs up and my algorithm spiraled out of control from there so I guess I have all the bujo influencers to thank for getting into it because it has been a godsend so far on my third attempt, but damn if the over emphasis on aesthetic over the actual practical organizational aspect of it doesn't rankle me a bit
[thirty rambling tags later] huh. I didn't know there was a thirty tag limit in all the years I've been on tumblr. Whatevs I can't copy paste the tags onto the main body because I'm on mobile and I don't want to write it out again so I'll just summarize the last bit here:
If you are browsing the bujo tag because you feel bullet journaling will help you but you feel intimated because you don't think you can make it look pretty, or that the bullet journal method could never help you because it looks exhausting or the inspo you see doesn't cover what you need, I am pleading with you to ignore all the pretty inspiration, take the most common and even original Ryder Carroll formats and spreads with a grain of salt and eliminate or change them as needed, and talk to people who have similar needs than you even if they don't bujo and suss out what's important to keep track of. My bujo is eighty percent important medical bullshit, because that's what I need more than a book tracker. You prolly have your own unique needs. And hell, if you want a book tracker then add a booktracker. It's your bujo to format and plan out.
So like if you want to start bullet journaling, go to Michaels and get a seven dollar Artist's Loft dot grid journal. Or a binder you have left over from school years past and print out your own dot grid paper if you have enough ink and paper and printer that can do double sided (Kevin McLeod's site I forget the name of has free adjustable dot and other grids I've used), or buy a pack of 8.5x11 dot grid paper, and grab a crappy hole punch that just barely does the job. Get yourself a nice pen you think looks and feels nice in your hand and on the paper–or if that doesn't matter to you go get pack of Bics or even pencil if that's what you prefer (I use a pencil for things I can't have be permanent, like temporary meds or the dates of yearly vaccines). If you're twitchy about messing up then get the cheapest wite out they have (but don't worry about messing up especially if you're not even showing it off to anybody). A cheap yellow highlighter if you think it'll help. And a ruler if straight lines are important to you. I lost mine so I just wobble my lines now I don't care (and it's marginally easier to get a line adjacent to straight with a dot grid)
Anyway. If you want to bullet journal but don't know where to start or how to make it pretty or how to make it work for your needs, just try it in the cheapest way possible and rearrange the guts of the bujo as you see fit. And don't worry about the optics as long as you can make sense of your methods and writing.
(and for the love of God if you're bipolar don't make an hourly mood tracker yes our moods can and will fluctuate throughout the day but goddamn was that a bitch to log and abandoned a few weeks after inking it out)
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When Misty came to work with me last weekend, a man came in to collect the money for a local dog rescue. And he asked me if she was a rescue then continued the conversation into older people should adopt old rescue dogs because if they get a young dog from a breeder, the dog will have nowhere to go if they pass before the dog and the family can't take the dog/doesn't want it... And I was just like. If I weren't on the clock right now, I'd at the very least have said that any good breeder would take the dog back... He even directly asked me, "what would happen to your beautiful designer dog if something happened to you and your partner?" I had to bite my tongue so hard.
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I dont make personal posts but i have to scream to my lil diary of shitposts about the phone call i just received. To my 5 followers who are real, im sorry for the real life update, and to my 1500 porn bots hot damn.
Anywho, i used to work for the dmv in a contractor office and was damn good at my job. I was so good that even tho i have only met one of them before, the local office manager, they all knew my name. Idk whether to be happy or scared even months later bc if it was in a bad way my contract went up in flames, and as the only office able to print car titles on demand besides hq proper, i would have many angry dealers on my hands. I also stole their 2nd best employee to work for me so theres that. I quit my job bc being salary sucks ass when your wage to hours work diddles down to something far below min wage and even a customer looked at me and asked jokingly if i was gonna kms after my shift. So thats fun.
5 months later and yall will not believe, my 8th ranked bestie in the state office just called me on my knees to beg me to work at the local dmv proper in licensing. The noise he made when i asked explicitly if xyz was gone. The squeak. The "im not allowed to name names but how do you know those names and know to blame your problems on them" choke. Apparently everyone who made my life hell is out the door and i feel very hm. The person who nearly sent my old joanns work bestie come bestie bestie is still there but hm. The whole clique has been broken up but now i gotta ask around to make sure. Like god damn. AND HE OFFERED TO BE A REF FOR IF I CHANGE STATES.
Work bestie #8, i am kissing you with tongue
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we have a coupon circulating rn that we keep at the registers to use for customers if we like them and its been so funny and delightful to throw it at the regulars i see like once every two months who are generally neutral to rude to me. cause theyre the only ones i recognize. they get so happy and theyre so niceys to me and its fun to go schemin' mode with them when im like 'yeah ive been authorized to use this for our favorite customers ;)'
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-->And then, finally, it was off to the store to actually open at a reasonable hour! Fortunately, when the trio arrived, the weather was merely chilly and partly cloudy, meaning there was no need to mess with the weather and get anyone electrocuted or anything like that. Alice, who was feeling the Fury, got sent off to have Zoomies, while Smiler grabbed a nice plasma pack snack before Victor officially opened the doors. He and Smiler then went around clearing "out of stock" signs while waiting for their first customer --
-->Who turned out to be none other than Agnes Crumplebottom. Stomping around all annoyed as usual. XD I had Smiler go say hi and chat with her to spare Victor her bad mood, and by the end, while she wasn’t any happier, she was at least receptive to a sales pitch. Good work, Smiler. :) Even if she did end up giving you a spook!
-->And then – well, it was all about handling the crowd of customers, socializers, and loiterers that came to the new hot grocery shop on the block! Victor and Smiler roamed the sales floor, asking customers about their price ranges, offering information on the products, and generally being as enthusiastic as they could be about the place. Smiler even dropped a "Happy Bomb" at one point with their "Influence Emotion" power to make sure everyone was having an excellent shopping experience! And it all did very much pay off -- quite literally, because the customers were buying things. XD Smiler got their first sale from a guy named Yuuna for a jar of lettuce conserve -- this was followed quickly by a guy named Mitchell buying a box of canned tomato sauce and Darrel Charmer buying a crate of chocolate milk (and me getting another LE around the same time – it DEFINITELY seems like some of Simsonian Library’s bulk food products and Brazen Lotus’s retail fridge stuff aren’t playing quite nice. Have to check on that later!), then two quill fruit sales and someone buying a Focused Scent after the "Happy Bomb." Nice!
-->But what about Alice? Well, she came back from her Zoomies less Furious but much hungrier, so I sent her straight to the break room to grab a few chicken nuggets and chow down. Once she'd had her lunch, she got put on restocking duty -- specifically, making new baked goods to fill the bakery section! She started by baking some butterscotch cupcakes in the oven, because now we can do that, shock of shocks. Don't know if I approve of her scratching herself so close to them afterward, but she's not in her furry form, so it's probably fine. XD
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i always get rly thrown when people at work remember my name. not the people i work with specifically but like. one of the guys from receipt and distribution just came to our office and geeeted me with my name and there’s a guy he works with who does it every time he sees me in the corridor. some of the it guys do it too. where’s that post about lacking any object-permanence regarding yourself again cause im—
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