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sammunmak · 2 months

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Specs & Max Freelance Police in: Hells-A-Poppin'!

+ sam’s vices !!

this is basically an au idea i had for the alt timeline! i wrote out all the changes to the first two seasons, but it's a bit on the longer side so i'm sticking it under the cut.

this takes place immediately after sam and max steal the elevator from their future selves. there’s no obvious changes at first. the director gives them another contract after telling her they misplaced the first one, but not without threat of not giving them another one if they manage to misplace this one. once they wrap up the case and free myra stump from the hypnosis, they take the elevator (and their music contract) with them and put it away in storage, vowing to never speak of the possibility that they just killed their future selves again. ah well, knowing themselves, they probably survive. everything else afterwards is pretty much the same, though when sam and max see superball for the first time sam asks max if he looks familiar. max takes one look at him and proudly declares nope, not at all, and that’s the end of that.

the first major change happens in 106.

hugh: for in all the universe, there’s only one force chaotic and destructive enough to stop me now! but you wouldn’t do that, would you max?

max: who, ME? well, i’m- i’m flattered, but-

hugh: no you wouldn’t, not without your trusty partner, at least.

max: huh?

sam: what exactly are you implying?

hugh: i’m going to… drumroll, please… [drumroll] separate your bliss!

max: really?

sam: what does that even mean?!

hugh: it means i chop off every part of you i don’t like! it’s like circumcision, but double the laughs.

max: he-ey!

sam: quiet, knucklehead.

sam gets split into 3 vices. gluttony, greed, and wrath. wrath is formed from sam’s right ear, greed is formed from sam’s left hand (it even keeps the wedding band!), and gluttony is formed from. well, the stomach. max loses all romantic interest he had in hugh bliss in that moment.

max is very annoyed about the whole situation. he never has to do work on their cases, and suddenly he’s being forced to figure everything out on his own! but seeing sam’s awful blissed-out state is worse. blissed-out sam is basically just a big puppy. all smiles, completely clueless about everything around him, and has to be led around by his remaining hand if max wants him to go anywhere. max considers shooting him every time he makes a comment about hugging trees or something sentimental crap like that, but one look at that big dopey grin on sam’s face and he just can’t do it. he needs to turn sam back quickly, he’s turning into a sap just being near this… shell of his partner.

wrath is in the sanctuary, threatening the COPS for information on max’s whereabouts (yes it’s just noir sam lol). when max and bliss sam finally make their appearance, wrath almost immediately tries to shoot bliss sam. max stops it, of course. it seems like max is the only person wrath won’t lash out against. max has to open one of bluster blaster’s side panels, then get wrath close enough to it to shut the panel on his ear, pulling it off wrath when it tries freeing itself.

once sam gets his ear back, he seems to randomly decide to shoot at max.

max: what was that for?!

sam: i dunno, it just felt right.

when max walks into bosco’s store, he immediately makes eye contact with gluttony sam, who’s sitting on the floor eating a giant tub of ice cream. it doesn’t seem very interested in eating actual people (haha foreshadowing?) in the freezer are a bunch of popsicles. max can grab one and give it to gluttony, who’ll chomp it down wrapper and all. max has to put jimmy two-teeth into one of the wrappers in order to get gluttony to eat him, then pull out jimmy and sam’s stomach with the magic hat.

sam: anyone else suddenly got a hankerin’ for a fudgie freeze?

max: you don’t know how glad i am to hear you say those words.

greed is inside the office, hoarding just about everything in there and more. somehow there’s items in here max didn’t even know they had. or maybe greed just grabbed everything not bolted down to the floor on the way back to the office.

max has to buy bosco’s invention (which is just a big magnet), then use the spoon bending talisman to pull the spork out of the hugh bliss statue’s hand, give it to greed, and then use the magnet to drag its ass towards him and just yank sam’s hand off it.

sam: are you using that magnet?

max: nope! it’s all yours.

upon collecting all 3 vices, sam returns to normal, and they can now go fight hugh bliss. cue world of max :)

not much else changes until 204.

once they enter momma bosco’s store and accidentally reveal max’s lack of interest in girls, momma bosco becomes infatuated with him. sam and max try and argue against this for a while, until max tells her that he’s a married man.

ms b: i don’t see a ring on your finger.

max: well check again!

max flashes his left hand, revealing a bare ring finger. oh. he didn’t put on his ring today. sam is missing his ring as well. seems they got a bit excited when flint invited them on a case with him and forgot them.

(not gonna lie this whole puzzle isnt fully fleshed out. the whole plan would be that they have to go back to their prom and essentially crash it in order to help max realize he doesn’t like girls. i did also have the idea of superball printing marriage certificates instead of patents, which they’d need to grab one from him and hang it on the corkboard in the near future, then go to the distant future and take their wedding rings from their future selves. if i do ever have an idea of how exactly this all pans out i’ll make it into a fic or something. for now tho this is the best i could come up with.)

max is very proud to show off his new wedding ring to momma bosco.

later on, sam is glad he kept that music contract on him, once one of the pedros asks for one.

of course, despite keeping their past selves from boarding the UFO, the elevator is still oddly enough missing when they run back to it.

max: hey, the elevator’s gone! what gives?

sam: hmm… remember what got us into this whole mess, the temporal anomalies and whatnot? maybe it’s another one of those? maybe this is the universe’s way of trying to correct the timeline, and we have to leave the same way our future selves did, since we’re-

max: alright, alright! less talky more- figuring out how to get off this dang ship!

ah well, having two elevators seems a bit overkill anyway.

not so long later, in 205:

sam: you better release our pals’ souls from hell, cause my excitable little friend is getting angry.

max: and i’m angry, too!

satan: there’s no need for that kind of talk. i’ll gladly release your friends. just sign this release.

max: hold on sam, i got this!

sam: …you sure, max?

max: positive! watch this. [he pulls out a crayon and scribbles his name on the contract]

satan: and that’s that.

sam: well that was pretty easy.

satan: now just do me a favor and think of the most horrible thing you can imagine.

max: ooh, that might take a second, there’s so many- oh, maybe- wait no, i’ve got it!

satan: good. now off you go!

[max disappears]

sam: sweet summering sausages sweltering on a busy sidewalk, what did you do?!

satan: he traded his soul for that of all your friends. they never read the fine print. now max will spend eternity in his own personal hell!

max: back in the office? where’s my partner?

specs: i’m over here!

max finds himself stuck inside a now very tidy office with specs, the neat freak of the soda poppers.

max: so where’s my REAL partner?

specs: what are you talking about, i AM your real partner.

max: uh, no. last i checked my partner was a six foot tall dog in a suit, not… you.

specs: oh, max. clearly you’re confused. you’ve always had a terrible memory. but don’t worry, i’m here to keep everything in order for you.

max is just about ready to start ripping out patches of his fur when he sees sam, sticking his big nose through the hole in their office wall. after a bit of arguing, max remembers the key card. he yells at sam to use it so they can kick demon’s spec’s ass together. when sam gets in there they do just that, ending in sam throwing the demon out the open window. with max’s personal hell defeated and leonard’s soul free they leave and finally go and confront satan.

as a bonus, a fun change to a piece of dialogue in 201:

sam: how long do you think it’ll take for one of us to kick the bucket?

max: i dunno, but i think if one of us were to go, the other would follow very close behind. maybe not even by choice!

sam: does that mean if i go first, i can take you with me?

max: sure does! in fact, i encourage it!

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malcolmschmitz · 1 year

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So a while ago, @neil-gaiman talked about freelancing (I think it was specifically in a comics context?) and said this:

“You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of today's world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don’t even need all three! Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. People will forgive the lateness of your work if it is good and they like you. And you don’t have to be as good as everyone else if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you.”

And I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and if you turn it around a little bit- you can also use this as a worker's rights framework for freelancers.

A good client will consistently give you grace on at least one of these things, and will occasionally give you grace on all of them if necessary. A good client will be understanding if you're late occasionally, or if you've had an off day and your work isn't quite up to par, or if you've got A Hill To Die On that isn't immediately palatable.

If you prove yourself over time, a good client will make allowances for you when you're consistently late, consistently grouchy, or consistently putting out B-grade work. As long as you've proven that you can give them two of Neil's three work necessities, a good client will be able to adjust their expectations of what you can and can't do, and will make it very clear to you up front when they can't adjust those expectations (because sometimes, business reasons mean they can't afford to let you be late/sloppy/prickly).

A client that won't budge on any of these expectations, ever, is not a great client. A client that never lets you give them anything but your Very Best work, badgers you about deadlines while you're having a Life Emergency, or demands that you always roll over when they say boo? Not a great client. Sometimes you have to take a client like this for survival reasons, because everyone has to eat. But you should not bust your hump working for a client like this, because they're not giving you the grace you deserve.

A client that tells you they are giving you grace on these things when they're clearly not, or a client that sets you up to fail on any one of these things? Say, a client that makes you do 10-15 rounds of terrible revisions while they waffle, or a client that sets you impossible deadlines, or a client that lets one person bully everyone else and expects everyone to make nice? Bad client. Danger, Will Robinson. Get out while you still can.

So yeah, the point is, a freelance relationship (and any other kind of work relationship! but Neil was talking about freelancers) is a two-way street. There are expectations you have to follow, but there are also expectations you can set.

If you know you struggle with skill, niceness, or punctuality, you can find freelance clients that let you play to your strengths-- and you should expect every client to, occasionally, give you grace with any of those things.

(Also Mr. Gaiman, I doubt you're reading this, but if you are, thank you so much for writing that-- as an unmedicated-ADHD teenager who's always planned to go into a creative field, it took so much pressure off of me when I was younger.)

#on writing #freelancing #worker's rights #freelancer's rights #neil gaiman #my freakin' industry #i'm tempted to tag a bunch of people in this but i think they'd rightly see it as spam orz

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shikai-the-storyteller · 2 months

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Aypierre just said his mods will ban any idiots in the chat being stupid about the QSMP situation, lmaooo. Absolutely based, get their asses.

#i talk #qsmp talk #I'll be honest. I do not understand the ''Boycott QSMP'' thing #like. if Quackity wasn't doing anything to resolve stuff I'd get it #but. he IS doing stuff #the ccs confirmed he's doing stuff #it feels very much like a:#''Hey we saw you did something wrong and instead of letting you remedy the situation we're going to punish you forever for this.''#''There is no absolution for your sin''#it's frickin weird dude #like don't get me wrong -- I was a freelancer for like... 5 - 7 years?#And I've seen my fair share of awful bosses and terrible power structures + people in power taking advantage of workers #but this just isn't comparable because like I said: Quackity is actually DOING things. He fired the idiots who did stupid stuff #and they're working on doing things for the admins + Egg admins #which once again: was confirmed by the CCs #idk man I just see the whole thing and I'm like ''???'' about it #I think it's just a matter of misinformation + strong emotions + language barriers #plus a side of what I said earlier- ''you made a mistake once which means I get to be an ass to you even if you're trying to fix things''#and in this specific situation that just seems so stupid #advocating for workers rights while getting mad about the owner of the project working on workers rights.#idk man it's mostly Twitter people being stupid but I genuinely almost want to sit down with folks and talk things out #which I will not do because I value my sanity. but I do think a lot of things can be solved with communication #I; however; simply do not have the energy for that #anyhoo that's my two cents and will probably be the last I say on this matter #goodnight y'all I'm EXHAUSTED #For the record even though Q didn't know about what was going on it does suck that it happened #but we can't change the past #not every mistake is fixable or forgivable but this one can be. in my eyes anyways #We'll see how things resolve in the end but it's going in the right direction and that's enough for me to be content for now

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magentasteam · 2 months

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I don’t think I’ll be doing a showdown in Mumbai anymore. Mumbai visually exhausts me and the targets go very far for their cycles. I can see why the leader is dehydrated. I would be too if I had a cycle of going from inside Rangan Tower to Vanya Shah’s place , taking the longest route possible. Felt like that episode of SpongeBob where they had a snail race and the audience was waiting for the old snail Larry to light the funnel.

#hitman fandom #hitman freelancer #should’ve gotten that shirtless worker disguise to heal my visual exhaustion.

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fueltoabsence · 11 days

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Fellow artists and art seekers!!

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As my bio states, I'm a disabled, low-income artist. I'm waiting for gov programs to deny/approve me and in the meantime needing to take care of my basic needs, hoping to do so with some art. I have a lot more to showcase than what's on fiverr, just fyi.

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P.S.

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jacine-the-queen · 2 months

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I'm doing freelance work now for 3D modelling

If you need any objects 3D modeled and textured you can contact me on Fivver

#Freelance #Freelance worker #3D modeling #3D model #3D artist #Game assets #fiverr #Game design #Game development #Texturing #Texture #Games #Video games

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mxtxfanatic · 1 year

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7seas seems determined to make wwx come off far more flippant than he is. not surprising from the yunmeng bros stan.

I was trying so hard to give benefit of the doubt all this time, especially with how messy 7seas seems as a business and the union stuff going on, but as this seems to be the only translation so heavily affected, I really want someone to explain. Explain to me like I’m five wtf is going on here. Explain to me what would make any of this acceptable and not ruin the reputations of the company and translation team. Cause now I’m even starting to doubt other translations by this person, which includes translations I like, and I’m not wanting to put any money into 7seas at all.

#mdzs asks #mdzs #also the freelancer stuff isn’t a part of the union #which is only for official company workers #so don’t tell me that’s the holdup #cause then you’d have to once again explain why no other mxtx translation was hit this badly with such ass mistranslations

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castielmacleod · 1 year

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Another thing I love to think about with Anna Milton is the fact that she’s a journalist (or at least majored in journalism but like. She presumably became one). I love thinking about this because THEE Cassie Robinson is also a journalist, and there is nothing at all to say that she and Anna couldn’t have worked for the same paper at one point or another.

#Anna Milton #Cassie Robinson #This can be “oh my god they were co-workers” if you want bsfsjsgsjsgs #I’m an Annaruby + Cassiebela guy myself but Annacassie would be so charming #If they did work for the same paper at some point then I’d like to think they at least dated for a little while #and still consider each other friends.#My posts #I love drawing my little lines between unrelated s/p/n minor characters in order to make the world feel more alive and interconnected <3 #I’m aware the US is an absolutely enormous place lol but you know people move about and such. It’s not IMPOSSIBLE #Especially if Anna was a freelancer or something #Was Cassie freelance? Did they even mention? I don’t remember

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iww-gnv · 2 months

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Via the IWW Freelance Journalists Union:

Since April 2023, Ben Camacho has been entangled in a legal battle over the release of photographs of officers with the Los Angeles Police Department. The photographs were obtained through a Public Records Request, after Camacho filed a lawsuit and a court settlement ordered the photos be handed over. Following the release of the photos by Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, the City of Los Angeles filed suit against Camacho and SLSC, alleging that the public release of the personnel photos could compromise “sensitive” operations. The ongoing attempt to claw back these now public records is being made in violation of the defendants’ First Amendment rights. Now, another lawsuit has been filed, apparently to shift blame in the case. The Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union stands in solidarity with Camacho, whose commitment to transparency in policing and government represents the core ethics of journalism: to inform the people and hold power to account. We call on Mayor Bass, City Attorney Soto and the City of Los Angeles to abide by the First Amendment by dropping these lawsuits immediately. Until then, we stand by the motto of the IWW: An injury to one is an injury to all!

#iww #industrial workers of the world #freelance journalists union #iww fju #los angeles #california #los angeles news #california news

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hibernationsuit · 8 months

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anyway remember the last time i used name generator to pick klara's name and wondered who tf names their child patience? i am now a 'proud' owner of an oc named patience

#insert that one felix' convo where he says that every serial has to have a character w/ an ironic name #she's low on patience. like really low.#she's an ex hr worker @ hhc but became a freelancer. to continue to work for the board but w/o paperwork

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th3p0rtalmaker · 11 months

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Did some cleaning up and reorganizing on my Patreon!

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merrilark · 9 months

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Making friends as an adult is sooooo hard. Times were simpler as a little kid when you could just walk up to another kid on the playground, ask them their favorite color, and instantly become best buds.

#being a freelancer is fine and all but i think one of the biggest downsides is how lonely it is #you can't make friends at work if you're the only worker there lol #merri mumbles

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15000bugs · 1 year

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i love being busy. a busy little bee. i love having my schedule so full that i dont even have time to think

#this sounds sarcastic but im being genuine #knock on wood but i could write for hours and not get sick of it #and i love ambassador work and i might take up an orientation job soon too #and im starting a new freelance job soon once i get more articles in my portfolio #and im working on like four different articles rn #and im working from 7 to 1 tomorrow #and giving a speech #busy bee buzz buzz #🐝👩‍💻🗞#this is not corporate sadness btw. rage against the machine and whatnot. labor unions hell yeah #i have achieved class consciousness yes to affirm #and im not a workaholic or anything #i just like having schedule and order and organization.. makes me feel good! and productive #and no matter how much i hate the concept of it i DO admittedly thrive on approval for being a quote unquote hard worker #its mostly the strict organization though. i love timed schedules i love lists. autism slay

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solarjobs · 1 year

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