#because 9 out of 10 times they are

[tastycitrus]

sometimes i see things in cass's tag on both tumblr and ao3 that make me want to do this

#cassandra cain #i need people to stop tagging everything related to batman/batfam for visibility or whatever #because it's kind of annoying to search the tag and have to dig through posts that don't even mention cass by name in them yet she's tagged #and i think the cass tag on ao3 is kind of a lost cause at this point :\ #there's good cass stories in there but 9 times out of 10 i'll open it to find nothing cass-centric #and what is there is a bunch of very fanon stories about how tim is a poor little meow meow or something like that

[nerdpoe]

hey word of advice from someone who works at a call center for reasons

tone down your info. do not tell us too much.

because what may seem innocuous to you could force us to send it to loss prevention, and from there it becomes a bureaucratic hell. You'll be bounced from one department to the next to the next.

describe the initial issue in twenty words or less, and only answer questions you are asked. do not volunteer info.

straight up most of my calls that end up with people pissed off are where they said something and i had no choice but to report it and transfer them to loss prevention.

less words, my ppl. less words.

#call center #retail woes #9 times out of 10 y'all create your own issues in call center ques because of excess info

[caitlynmeow]

When the girls were younger they were truly a handful and Alcina was used to the noise and chaos. But when going out in different settings, she noticed a pattern: when Daniela and Cassandra are together it turns very chaotic very quickly because Cassandra is an enabler and encourages Daniela to get into all kinds of mischief.

Pairing Daniela and Bela is a more peaceful solution. Bela is naturally calm, unlike Cassandra. She doesn’t egg Daniela on, and the two of them can remain quiet for a long time. Also, when in a new social setting like a big gathering, Daniela does feel a little shy. In those situations, she seeks out Bela and sticks by her side, remaining with her until she is comfortable enough to do things on her own.

Even in their house, Daniela would seek Cassandra to play with for hours to no entd. But when it comes to more quiet activities, like reading, she’d usually find Bela and ask her to read some books for her.

#headcanon #house dimitrescu #daniela dimitrescu #cassandra dimitrescu #bela dimitrescu #resident evil village #resident evil 8 #re8 #castle dimitrescu #alcina dimitrescu #re village #this is when the girls were young like dani is around 3-4 Cassie is 6-7 and bela is 9-10 #and by then Daniela knows which sister is good for what #for one fun it’s always Cassie but for reading and just not being a menace it’s bela #Alcina caught this quickly and it was easy to pair her youngest and eldest together while she handles Cassie on her own #because Cassie is her sensitive baby out of the three and she wants to spend a lot of one-on-one time #and generally just to keep things quiet #because Cassie dani combo is not for the weak #both are daredevils and little to no regard to anyone or anything else #and having them plot things together is never good #and it’s especially bad/suspicious when Cassie and dani are together and it’s QUIET #Alcina knows that this isn’t anything good #but luckily her babies got older and she managed to redirect their energy into different activities #like most days of the week her babies are busy with different activities #it was a lot of hit and miss until the girls found what they like #like Cassie HATES sports especially team sports #so that was out quickly and she had to find something else #she discovered art and baby was in love #this is why Cassandra is their artist

[moonilit]

Ok but the entire Dawn winery staff jumping around informing each other that kaeya is here so all of them get a chance to see him was very sweet, like i knew the staff cared about him but it’s nice to get a confirmation and few childhood stories lol

#The DW staff throwing diluc off the stairs to get to see kaeya: MOVE #connor run all the way to get him the wine like buddy #Me running screaming and turning on the floor because i get to listen to Crepus and kaeya stories #I never asked for a perfect Crepus just a good dad Crepus and i GOT IT! #the basterd i actually believed diluc when he said he didn’t like wine for its taste #but apparently his pride was so hurt by his father punishment he just made wine his mortal enemy #Which seeing the fact that it was out of his own actions it checks out #Wow master diluc #Any way i would die for addy #Addy basically said: if they were getting into trouble 10/9 of times it’s somehow Diluc’s doing and she is right #kaeya being the favorite child is making my day ifdvnk #Kaeya #diluc #im not doing the rest i don’t have the energy #Feel free to spoil #genshin impact #Crepus

[moghedien]

a good rule of thumb I have is that if I see someone use "critical thinker" as a self descriptor on their social media, they are probably the most close-minded know-it-all imaginable who doesn't know how to accept the possibility that they might be wrong about something

#9 times out of 10 they're just someone who deconstructed from a religion and that became their entire personality #and now they use pseudo-psychology language to make themselves look correct in every situation #and they don't have any kind of emotional growth because 'cults use emotions' and 'facts don't care about feelings' or something #so if you question them too much they'll throw a fit like a child and start accusing you of things #I wish I was only thinking of one instance of this I've seen online #but its literally every 'critical thinker' I've ever encountered #this is what happens when you don't teach humanities tbh

[jkooktray]

They are not reading

#imagine they’re in like a home library because chuuya would not let Dazai have his grippers out in public #they own either a separate floor or room and they collect books together #9 times out of 10 I always want to add some animalistic feature like tails when I draw them #there’s an alternate frame where I couldn’t help myself and gave Dazai bunny ears #I keep drawing him with rabbitish feet #chuuyas socks have slugs on them I just forgot #bsd #skk #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai #my art 2023

[hantu-burung]

another drawing of the tisserand! my slugcat sona (they/he)

slightly unrelated prelude to lore below. i'm just a bit excited to share their story. skip to the red text for an explanation about the pole plant on their back! this is like an internet recipe i'm giving you a bit of his life story first.

the tisserand comes from a colony of slugcats that lived in an abandoned scavenger room/shelter directly beneath the farm arrays wormgrass. their colony lives a very secluded life, using the wormgrass alone to sustrain themselves (for safety. and when the wormgrass dies, for food too.)

on one cycle, the room breaks down in the rain.

the carpet slugcats evacuate, with the colony leader migrating them to a secondary shelter far away.

the tisserand, however, overslept his hibernation, somehow missing the shelter failure altogether. they wake up starving, in a sopping wet ruin of their old colony, looking for their family.

like monk, they're a bit too young and inexperienced especially coming from a reclusive breed of slugcat. but they figure out a few tricks using their sticky mucus and uh, pest weaponry??

!!!ONTO THE POLE PLANT!!!

sticking wormgrass on their back is the default for carpet slugcats, it's almost instinctual. however, during the tisserand's journey, they might find wormgrass limiting or dangerous. it's a short range defensive cover, not enough to take them from one side of the map to the other.

if the tisserand is taking a bit more of a violent route, they might be able to harness a pole plant, using them as a "spear plant". (it's a little bit far-fetched but...i mean look, theres slugcats making singularity bombs out of plants...should be fine.)

the process of wrangling a pole plant is difficult. first, the plant needs to be fed, then stunned. the tisserand is able to dig the plant's roots and stomach out, but that takes time. time left vulnerable to other predators in the area. if the slugcat isn't eaten up by a lizard or vulture, they can stick the plant onto their back. it cannot be used until the tisserand hibernates while wearing the plant.

once that ordeal is over though, it's worth it. a spear that can grapple and swallow predators whole is very very useful. the pole plant's stomach might weight the tisserand down while it digests something heavy, but that only takes a couple of seconds for the plant to process its meal. (i know that's not how weight works...shh....)

that's all i have so far on the "spear plant" but i absolutely have a lot to say about the tisserand in general. there'll be more

#rain world #rainworld #rain world oc #rainworld oc #slugcat oc #slugcat sona #slugsona #rw slugcat #slugcat #the tisserand #i'm not sure if this is the place to apologise/anyone can see this but if anyone tries to interact with my blog and find themselves blocked #9 times out of 10 it is completely impersonal. i have rain world shipping blocked because i just don't care for it #but i don't really have major beef with people in the fandom. dont want to upset anyone 👍

[compacflt]

what are bradley’s earliest memories of ice and mav? the bits of his perspective on them that you’ve written are so fascinating

fairly unsurprising answer but: ice: when he came to see Carole to apologize for killing goose in ch 2 of wwgattai (sets the tone of their relationship)

mav: something very benign like mav doing magic tricks for him as a little little kid. you know how your earliest memories are always a little fuzzy and always afternoon sunshine? imagine a desaturated maverick sitting crosslegged in the grass in pale afternoon southern california sunshine showing Bradley how he can detach his thumb from his hand and then put it back again. no blood, no bone, no pain, and he’s got this daredevil grin like he’s enjoying separating his thumb from his hand. can’t see his eyes behind his aviators. the best magicians are the ones who can make even their pain disappear. or, playing “got your nose,” holding Bradley’s nose up so he can see it right in front of his very eyes, NO PAIN!, and then making it disappear. “where’d your nose go, Gosling? oh, my gosh, I lost your nose!! how’re you gonna smell? i bet you’re gonna smell bad. get it? get it? —here it is, i found it, don’t worry, it’s all good!” and putting his nose back so everything’s ok. that’s Bradley’s earliest memory of mav.

#Bradley’s nose (mavs thumb) is a foreshadowing metaphor for the academy here obviously #this is just my conjecture as a californian kid who was many times duped by the thumb trick myself. #You know where they screw it off and it really looks convincing #im closer to 10 years old than i am to 31 😞 ten years ago today i was at my little baseball summer camp :) in third grade #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #bradley rooster bradshaw #top gun #asks #also ive had this little scene where he drives to their house in his moms car after some late high school event #only to find ice & mav passed out on the couch together at 9:30 at night with the tv still playing #because mav had made a home between ices arms and (tired fighter pilot after long day of drills) fell asleep there and what #was ice supposed to do; wake up an exhausted American hero & push him away? no. this isn’t so bad. —and then accidentally fell asleep too. #and bradleys just standing there in his homecoming tux going ‘oh this is real. oh they really are. oh. ok i will let them sleep.’ #and sneaking back into his moms car to go to his own house for once. #i can’t find anywhere to put that scene so you’re getting it in the tags of this post

[quasi-normalcy]

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#Just read a disquieting rumour that my ex was faking being indigenous. #Which... #I mean #I didn't see the evidence #All that I know is that this call-out post went up about 9 months ago in indigenous facebook groups #and my ex's entire online presence was apparently immediately scrubbed afterwards #which i'm only learning just now because honestly i've broken off all contact with them and with the rest of their friends #but like...it kinda wouldn't surprise me? #but the thing was they were an extremely militant decolonization activist #like they would go on long angry rants about appropriation and 'pretendians' and how terrible they were #but also like...they didn't really identify as indigenous until i think a year or so into our relationship? #and at the time i just figured ''whatever they're reconnecting with their roots'' #(I'm not indigenous; I don't know how these things work) #but then they started speaking sporadically in a fake accent when around other Native people and going on about how 'Rez' they were #and like...'Rez'. Mate. #I know for a fact that you grew up in a $10 million house in Hawaii #(at least I assume it was a fact) #And they were a big fan of using social justice arguments and language as a pretext for abusing me. #And if it was a lie then. Well. It would be very much in character for them let me just say. #Like they lied constantly to other people. I just...I guess I assumed that I was an exception? #Or that they wouldn't lie about the big stuff. Especially when they acted so vociferously angry about it. #But yeah. Trying to assume the absolute most marginalised social identity they can for clout sounds very much like something they would do.

[incoherentbabblings]

I understand people joking about unintelligible accents/dialects sometimes I do but there is always something really surreal about seeing one that is either yours or one that you understand perfectly well being made the butt of a joke and you'll sit there like what's the joke they're being perfectly coherent!

There are many many many many examples of this but the one that is relevant for myself is the chap in Brave speaking Doric. He's not even speaking that fast.

If he was a wee bit closer I could lob a caber [tree trunk/log] at him, ken [you know]? and It's just nae fair making us fit [fight] for the hand of the quine [woman], it disnae whet an appetite, ken [you know]?

#just something I was thinking about #to be fair doric is mocked by scots because it does use certain lingo that glasgow and edinburgh don't and it does have a different rhythm #still #he's a nice boy who enjoys caber tossing and saying 'it just doesn't make sense' in the most poetic way possible #also see chicken run but i think the joke is more on the rooster for being ignorant than the hen rolling her rs #i think it's just if you aren't used to the pattern of speaking it can be hard #i have a pretty neutral english accent and when i was in washington dc the blooming concierge didn't understand me and i was so baffled #so... no judgement i know it's more than just being ignorant 9 times out of 10

[vintageurovision]

Türkiye in the Eurovision Song Contest: The 1980's

1981 - Petr'oil, Ajda Pekkan

1981 - Dönme Dolap, Modern Folk Trio and Aysegül

1982 - Hani, Neço

1983 - Opera, Çetin Alp and the Short Wave

1984 - Halay, Bes Yil Önce, On Yil Sonra

1985 - Didai Didai Dai, MFÖ

1986 - Halley, Klips ve Onlar

1987 - Sarkim Sevgi üstüne, Seyyal Tanner and Lokomotif

1988 - Sufi (Hey Ya Hey), MFÖ

1989 - Bana Bana, Pan

#eurovision #esc #turkey #turkiye #80s #gif #op #some of these are very hard to find on youtube #many have been taken down because of copyright strikes #and we know the official channel only uploads an old performance when the artist dies #(9 out of 10 times - sometimes they're alive and it's just to scare me I guess) #anyway the link above as a couple of videos of the nf performance or the music video #{country-decade}

[muzzleroars]

Does V1 purr?? Not like a cat, but more like an engine running

Devious beast I say

absolutely it does because i have v1 make a whole plethora of little sounds that largely come from its mechanisms/a rudimentary chip that could produce various beeps to communicate in case of hardware failures. largely it uses these for its own amusement, but it also begins to use them with gabriel in addition to its body language to help express how it feels or what it's thinking. also probably uses them to pretend to be cute, luring gabe right into its trap where it GETS him

#very much like a cat showing its tummy and then BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU #although what's funny about it is that it's VERY obvious when v1 is trying to be cute #because it doesn't really have a concept of that #so 9 times out of 10 gabe knows exactly what it's going to do #but that in itself is actually pretty cute lol #cake answers #v1

[hella1975]

tams azula is sooo fascinating bc while canon azula doesn't really show her age at all like she's completely desensitised to so much shit 'she is fourteen' is not a justification for ANYTHING both in her own mind and in other people's, in tams she has zuko. and yes the world has been abundantly cruel to her but zuko hasn't. he's basically raised azula and he's done so in a way that she's allowed to show her age, but she still only shows her age in very azula-esque ways. there's no reluctance to see violence like you'd expect from a fourteen-year-old, and like ive said before, that means zuko can't play on that reluctance in order to shield her, but he still wants to shield her from that violence because regardless of what SHE feels about it, as the eldest he knows fundamentally that she shouldn't be seeing certain things no matter how well she can handle them. and seeing zuko effectively PLAY azula in order to protect her is so interesting and complicated and fun

#and also a little heartbreaking bc it's the 'you protect azula but who protects you?' #like in order to shield azula from these things zuko is metaphorically standing in front of her and seeing them himself #as if he's not only sixteen and a child too #but yeah taking azula's canon traits and manipulating into the tamsverse is soooo fun #like the example that inspired this post is how canon azula is logical NOT cruel #like time and time again she follows only the logical route and even actively avoids the cruel route #e.g calling off torture in the boiling rock bc she knew that he was telling the truth and therefore continuing to torture him was illogical #im not saying azula is averse to/incapable of cruelty i just hc that she genuinely just thinks it's stupid #just like any other unnecessary act would be considered stupid. if it's not logical or being used for a greater plan then what's the point? #and tams azula STILL HOLDS THIS TRAIT except because i lean more into her age in tams bc she's been given the freedom with zuko #to liberally be a CHILD without any consequences as a result of that simple thing #her intense logic actually becomes a certain naivety on azula #like she cannot comprehend other people NOT coming to the conclusions she comes to #and that expands to needless cruelty. like she wont factor a person's cruelty into her calculations #because in her head all she needs to dismiss that calculation is 'excessive cruelty here would waste time which is illogical' #she assumes everyone is as smart and to-the-point as she is so when they ARENT and will actively waste time just to do dumb shit #it catches her off guard and she DOESNT PLAN FOR IT so it can really fuck them over sometimes #so this is one instance where zuko has azula beat despite it being STRATEGY aka azula's strong point #bc zuko's immense cynicism and assumption that Everyone Is Awful doesn't hold up against logic 9 times out of 10 #but the one time it does is the time azula gets caught out #i just think tams zuko and azula's dynamic is so fucking interesting im so clever for that tbh #twice as many stars

[thewilddoghaunts]

"ThAt'S aSsOcIaTeD wItH fAkInG" By whom? Some 14 year old TikTok-er who thinks they invented dissociative disorders?

#The Boss #System #The Cypher Wheel #did #osdd #plurality #plural system #actually plural #multiplicity #mpd #tagging because people need to see this #9 times out of 10 fakeclaimers are some dumb teenager with zero psychology knowledge #they're also ableist fucks #eat my entire ass

[rudjedet]

I am so sorry to trouble you with obvious BS, but a friend found these pendants while metal detecting and was hoping someone would be able to translate the one on the left. Would you know where I could go? The cartouche beginning with a big bust of (Maat? Isis??) is throwing me…

Xxx

Oh that's not total bullshit, the one on the right is supposed to be the Rosetta Stone and the one on the left is a rather wonky version of the cartouche of Cleopatra VII Philopator (aka the Cleopatra). And by wonky I mean "they left off the initial K in favour of fitting in her bust so now it just reads Leopatra". (And made some other weird positional choices but like. Leopatra. That's objectively hilarious.)

Here's the same cartouche rendered horizontally, from the temple of Edfu:

Read from right to left in this case; the sign directly above the lion is the one they left off!

#also no worries re: bothering me #this stuff is easy for me but if you don't know where to start looking it can be like ??? lmao #though a good rule of thumb is when it's a cartouche it's either cleopatra tutankhamun or nefertiti #or a phonetic translation of a modern person's name #in the former case the website pharaoh.se is EXTREMELY useful #in the latter one just look up one of those graphics that list egyptian signs side by side with the latin alphabet #actually you can do thay for cleopatra's cartouche anyway because her name is originally Greek and Egyptians wrote non-Egyptian words #and names phonetically #(when it's a modern cartouche necklace I mean to say - obv all kings had cartouches or serekhs but if you get a mkdern necklace thing it's #9 times out of 10 one of the ones I mentioned or a modern person's name)

[purgemarchlockdown]

The temptation to vague about something in the milgram-confessions blog because its something thats bothered me for Actual Years about certain fandoms vs letting it go because when it is brought up its actually done somewhat tastefully and reasonably which makes me happy and this anon probably didnt mean it in the incredibly bad faith way I keep on seeing it be repeated so really Im getting upset over nothing.

#the answer is: ramble a bit in the tags just to get it out of my system #for some elaboration: Im asian! I have a knee jerk reaction when people go 'the westerners are projecting their values onto the east again' #because 9/10 of the times someone does that they're an American who wants to justify their weird racism/homophobia #by using the idea that asian countries (especially Japan) are backwards and/or ignorant but disguising it as 'being mindful of their cultur #and also then homogenizing them and pretending their all a monolith to be assholes to people! #and/or completely dismiss any possible criticism or interpretation for a series as a cultural values thing #this one fucks me up especially because usually there IS Merit in those interpretations/criticisms #but a concerning amount of people then go 'oh your just pushing your cultural values onto them' as a smokescreen to be a bunch of assholes #and/or discredit their ideas because Clearly All (insert x group here) think EXACTLY THE SAME and BELIEVE FULLY in whatever cultural #idea their using to justify this behavior #Ive Seen actual good discussion on differences in culture! #especially in another fandom of mine #but the worse option has happened so much that when I hear someone say those words alarm bells start ringing #its bad faith! I know its bad faith! But Ive engaged the worse option in good faith and came out wanting to punch someone A Lot More #Ive seen actually good faith discussions of cultural difference in this fandom sometimes! Its really nice but It scares me #cause im just Waiting for Someone to come in and ruin it #can you guys tell ive seen too many bad anime video essays? Ive seen too many bad anime video essays.