#getting shot on the job no less

[lord-squiggletits]

IDW1 must take place on an alternate Earth where no one has ever heard of ACAB and everyone wears "thin blue line" merchandise because there's literally no other way that a single Autobot killing a USAmerican cop in self defense would be such worldwide news that even Mexican journalists would go "OMG???? You like, killed a cop?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?" and it wasn't even framed as like, "you killed a human," the phrasing every time any character talked about it was very specifically "he killed a cop".

The cop was also threatening to shoot a group of surrendering/not-attacking/injured Autobots btw which is just the icing on the cake honestly lmao

#yeah i still think about how that plot point's handling in phase 2 was fucking dumb #you can't convince me that if a usamerican cop got shot by an alien people wouldn't be making memes about it #ppl would be making memes like 'you know a pig is a pig because he'll even shoot alien robots when they're surrendering' #i'm also mad bc the gun that that cop had was a replica of cybertronian guns that meg spread among earth's populace #and what's worse is spike and this other guy literally HEARD M EXPLAIN HIS EVIL PLAN ABOUT THIS #but somehow in phase 2 literally no one ever brings it up ever again #like not even spike brings up the whole 'yeah M had mind controlling guns that he did specifically to destabilize the population' #he was just like 'nah that autobot shot a cop the autobots are evil now' #but like. i wanna make the earth ac/ab memes so badly lmao #you know that ppl would be making 'officer down' jokes about some cop getting killed by an alien robot #don't try to tell me that it's bc they're alien robots people would suddenly support the US #ppl literally make 9/11 jokes bc they hate the US that much don't even try to tell me earth would suddenly unite over a usamerican cop #getting shot on the job no less #and this is also a story written by barber who's literally the ac/ab writer that gave OP shit for being a cop so like #it's honestly so baffling. like was he trying to make a point about police brutality #bc jazz is black coded and he killed a cop so that's why barber wrote everyone hating jazz for it? #idek it's just another one of those stupid plot contrivances i hate and make me unable to take the rest of the story seriously

[duskianfae]

kaveh is prengante

#genshin impact #genshin #kaveh #cyno #faruzan #haikaveh #kavehtham #(for like two seconds if you squint) #animatic #fanimatic #meme #funny #I AM ON A ROLL WITH THESE ANIMATICS #GETTING A JOB WITH ANIMATION MADE ME SO CONFIDENT WITH THESE!!!!! #Also this is my favorite clip and I'm so happy with out it came out!!! #less happy about cyno but its my first time ever drawing him #still really like how he came out in some shots #the punches were the hardest part tho #im not really good at those #but the final result isnt that bad!!!!

[july-19th-club]

seven or eight times now ive watched the episodes in which they take the andromache and this is the first time ive realized that during the initial battle, after they board, every time the camera is from dufresne's perspective it's blurrier than otherwise because. he took his glasses off for the fight

#real velma hours #i have a soft spot for s1 dufresne that i dont have for s2 & 3 #part of it is that jannes bore a passing resemblance to a longtime mutual of mine so i feel like im watching someone i know #the other part is . well its like andy whitfield versus liam whatsisface when they were on spartacus #i dont know for sure bc they passed and that's the reason their characters were recast. but the actors have a different energy #from seasons one to seasons two and three. and i really wonder what jannes would have brought to dufresne's betrayal #roland reed's take is extremely bitter and self-preservationist #but from what we did get of jannes' performance i imagine his version would've been more confused and fear-based. jaded/feral #and i always think it really wouldve been something #black sails #q #everything about this battle sequence is a masterpiece. from the shot of joshua getting his false fangs ready to put in #to mr beauclerc's pile of like a dozen muskets up in the crow's nest. because it's 1715 snipers can't reload . he has to shoot #a different gun every time #to the way most pirate media glosses over the minutia of battle or even priacy in general because it's about the vibe the aesthetic #but sails' piracy is a means to an end and so its pirates are just like. guys with jobs #the minutia of their battle sequences even in their comparatively less insightful first season are INCREDIBLe. like o'brien levels of detai #and the camera work in this sequence! even on my thirteen-inch laptop screen where my show is on a nine-inch window #i am right there in it i feel like im watching it in 3d

[retconomics]

babygirl you are my EVERYTHINg..!!.,1!1!

#attollo #in the tags because he's mary sue af and its embarrassin... #i've said it before but her power is p much transferrable healing factor so like. can take other peoples ouchies or give his to others #and then heals really quickly as long as there are enough excess calories to burn through #side effects often include light headedness or fainting if its a big job. #also like. she tends to transfer any big cuts or injuries that would result in visible scarring.. only exceptions are the piercings and #the edgelord tattoos he got on his fingertips to warn people about his fatal cheese touch (ie touch of extreme wound generosity) #oh right yeah can only transfer wounds through direct contact #like skin to skin #shed still die if like. shot to the head. but everything else theres a chance of survival ESP if shes touching someone or smthn else living #uhhh what else what else. #hangs out with sysba and suha for the clothes probably. #still has medical training.. maybe is an underground doctor or smthn idk #my art #and YES thats his natural hair yes its bleach damaged no idk how to convey that. next. #.. oh yeah lol works with ovo. like not FOR them but. might as well. #oc: alice #EDIT: I want it to be more balanced and less. multifaceted (u get ONE power) so: #instead its just status transfer like maybe a suuper mild healing factor because of how the transfer works - #-can spread trauma to other cells in other areas to minimize overall harm' #-and its semi-automatic so the IS potential for a ned the piemaker situation #so like if alice is freshly dead but the cells arent.. boom transfer #ok i think thats better.

[alteredphoenix]

I'm honestly not sure why Kishimoto Masashi hasn't done any other stories that isn't Naruto (well, there's Samurai 8, but that ended up cancelled, and Boruto is...well. It's Boruto But Let's Disassemble Boruto's Dad's Canon Until Not Even The Atoms Are Left).

Compared to the high fantasy ninja-cum-borderline-modern-day-cyberpunk aesthetic, Mario was such a breath of fresh air. Maybe not as lived in as Naruto (because it's a forty-four page one-shot, and you can't really afford to waste time on making New York feel "lived in" in that many pages), but it's so grounded in reality that the environment and the foundations of the story are already set in place. It doesn't have to worry about playing with the Magic System or keeping its chronology from getting tangled up in retcons and deus ex machina. It's short, it's simple, and gets right to the point while leaving many of its other elements inferred and in the background.

#as i understand it. or at least it's speculated. that elements of samurai 8 are being carried over to boruto #hence why it's moved away so quickly from naruto's 90s tech to an almost postmodern cyberpunk era #as well as teenage punk and grunge aesthetic that can almost be called dystopian #it's why - for me - boruto has felt less 'ninja fantasy' and more 'urban fantasy but throw in space-faring alien leeches into the mix' #especially with the arrival of two blue vortex #but the problem with the otsutsuki is how utterly last minute they are in canon #w/ no buildup whatsoever #and its timeline is such a mess that a plate of spaghetti looks more coherent #mario doesn't have that problem #it's set in 2003 new york about a guy in the mafia who takes on jobs to earn money for the sake of money #who eventually teams up with a female hitman in order to earn his own territory #there's mention of his late yakuza mother and how the hitman he's working w/ looks like her #as well as his necklace in the shape of the libra's scales that play into his ties between his mother & his partner #BOOM it doesn't waste ANY time faffing around. the plot just gets right to it #it's an interesting little oneshot that unfortunately doesn't really leave room for continuation #due to the way the ending doles out his fate #like. kishimoto has the POTENTIAL for constructing tight storycrafting #we saw this in the minato one-shot recently #he just needs to do what HE wants to do and not try to aim high #a'la try to make it another naruto/boruto #armi reads manga #manga

[supercantaloupe]

i'm also looking for a job right now (one of those studying a degree needing a graduate degree to work, fml) and the job market is so fucked right now. i hope you do find one soon.

thank you for your kind thoughts. i think at this point, barring any potential one-off gigs i might get asked to play, it's really unlikely i'll get a job this summer. on the bright side i DO have a job lined up for the fall -- i'm working a fellowship at my university while i'm in grad school. it doesn't pay very much, but it funds the degree which is as good as deal as i could hope for (esp cause my program will probably take up to three years). i just really really wish i had something to do in the meantime over the summer; i hate sitting around without something to Do, and i'm bad at motivating myself to do stuff, and i hate the fact that i'm not able to contribute significantly to my own expenses yet. (of course i've extremely grateful to have a support system willing to help me while i'm at this point in my life, but i do WANT to be able to support myself at least in part by now.) but considering the fact that it's already mid june (and i'm out of the country for a week pretty soon), even if there were seasonal positions still available around me no one is realistically gonna hire me for only two months of work. i think i'm pretty much fucked on that account and i just have to get over it at this point. still, it would be nice if even a fraction of the jobs i've applied to so far would even message me back...but almost none of them have. sigh!

#sasha answers #anon #ty for your care. i appreciate it i do #and i hope you get a job soon as well #it just sucks. it's so frustrating. i can't even get a crummy grocery store cashier or barista job #which is about the only thing i'm 'qualified' for (because the qualifications don't require experience) #(and i still somehow get ignored or rejected when i apply...) #the only other shit that's consistently pushed at me on indeed are waitressing jobs and I Cannot Do That #like physically i would not be able to work that job (and i would probably crumple the second a customer was shitty to me) #(but i can't be on my feet for that long without significant breaks i'm just not physically capable) #what fucking gets me too is that like...i applied to internships and stuff that i AM qualified for. #i applied to performing arts jobs #i got interviewed for some of them! i thought i had a really good shot! #but i was rejected from all of them and i don't even really know why #which is just. really upsetting #especially when i have friends my age (and younger! with as much or less experience as me!) getting jobs in this field #jobs they love and love to talk about #and they're my friends. i am so happy for them. i am. i swear #but it also does sting a bit every time #knowing that they got it and i didn't #and some of them like to say how easy it is. how great a gig it is. #just apply! there are so many positions! you don't need a lot of experience! you would love it! #well. i would love it. i know i would. that's why i applied to similar programs here #and i got rejected. #everytime. #and now it's june and i have nothing to do with myself except waste time on tumblr and bake #and it just. sucks. #anyway. #i wanna talk about me #man i even picked my grad program specifically to make sure it would give me Marketable Skills(tm) when i'm out too.

[tendercoretroglodyke]

I can't believe I'm still saying this 5 seasons in but. the way at LEAST half of all the disasters on desperate housewives would've been avoided if any one of these women had ever heard of abortion....

#i just dont get it #like ok i KINDA see how you can justify this being a plot point when the teen daughter of the superchristian housewive gets pregnant #(though it shouldve at least been a part of the discussion...) #but like. Lynette didnt even want her FIRST child #much less her... what is it now? 5th child?? #or 5 and half i suppose if you half-count her husbands daughter with another woman #(who was shot right next to you and whose daughter you promised to care for right before she died) #(who you sent away to live with her grandparents because her acting out from her moms traumatic death was too much for you) #oh wait! no my bad #this will be lynette's 5.5ths AND 6.5ths (????) children because apparently shes having TWINS. AGAIN #like. lynette. you are in your mid to late 40s. youve raised 4 children and are finally getting your oldests out of the house #you only recently reentered the workforce #your husband is struggling so hard to get a job he decided to go back to college to learn mandarin to get a leg up in the industry??? #LYNETTE. ABORTIONS WERE INVENTED FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU!! I AM BEGGING!! #lynette if i beg hard enough will you hear me through the screen and 15 years time separating us #lynette. Can You Hear Me #do NOT #have these children #girl. listen to me. you are going to have to pay 8 college tuitions. and with WHAT savings??? #your restaurant just TANKED you have NOTHING in the bank!! #count with me! #2 kids just heading into college + 2 younger kids who will be going to college (at least 1 no doubt getting a phd) #+ 1 kid you sent away but will still have to pay for #+ 1 husband who figures he'll go back to college cos he cant find a job #PLUS 2 more kids on the way??? #= 8!! 8 tuitions!! a few are bound to go for grad degrees too! do you have ANYTHING tucked away for them?? #lynette. kill them kids #Abort Those Embryos!! #now!! #desperate housewives lb

[veresiine]

Work retail, they said. It will cure your social anxiety, they said.

It's been five years. Not only has my social anxiety NOT improved, but I have all kinds of new anxieties! I get nightmares about rotisserie chicken availability! Even if I'm at other stores and off the clock, I freeze in fear when the music turns off and the paging system turns on! I flinch at the ringtone of the store phone! I can feel fear curdling in my stomach if the phone rings when there are no cars in the parking lot because that means it's almost certainly a customer complaint! The word 'coupon' fills me with dread in any context now!

#vent post #negative #veresiine irl #posting this because God willing I will be leaving this job soon #because my physical and mental health are deteriorating pretty rapidly #and with all the changes corporate has forced on us starting this summer #all my coworkers are on the brink of collapse too #there are a few more specific anxieties but basically #the only fear this job has helped with is fear of being hit by a motor vehicle #because we have so many near-misses all the time and also frankly broken bones sound better #than working here on a rough day #it's a parking lot so people are going low speeds so a collision probably wouldn't be fatal #honestly I'm much less traumatized by that time I almost got shot in the store parking lot #than I am from some of the verbal customer interactions I've had #in part because I got like. actual support. 'go take your lunch and get something good. Do you need to go home?' #'you were so brave for going through that. I'm so glad you're safe' #vs the verbal abuse is just. an expected part of the job #even if I do get sympathy from coworkers if I cry #why am I - an autistic person with severe social anxiety - working customer service (both in-person and on the phone) anyway?

[constantvariations]

V9C3

What sites are y’all using? I had to go through like 3 before finding one that would work :/ either way, react time yeehaw

Post Ep: this is essentially a mental breakdown of an episode and I hated every minute of it

I think crwby put more attention into the trees than the story

Weiss for the love of cheese and crackers stop with the fucking wAcKy animations I am begging

Why does this little red shite sound so shitty? I wanna shove him in a locker and give him swirlies. Also wow an entitled dramatic flamboyant prince. What a totally unique idea. I am in utter disbelief at such creativity. How can we ever thank our crwby overlords for such a great character.

I unpause the video and immediately need to kill this stupid shitheel. I cannot believe we are getting all the most annoying characters in a single fucking volume. At this point I’d be willing to endure another fucking Jaundice arc if it meant never hearing the prince or Little ever again

I am losing my goddamn mind every 3 seconds. I’m going to start chanting latin and climbing up the walls and spewing pea soup everywhere

I’m going to go full Blaire Witch. The last y’all are ever going to hear of me is when the forest rangers find my shitty recorder at the torn apart campsite and the last thing you’ll ever hear is me going “Where is the fucking plot what are the themes what is this tone someone help me”

Ruby is red. Shouldn’t that like. Factor in at all? Dude’s so upset at the color green but is totally chill with yellow, black, and blue? Is it because green is the opposite of red?

So it’s a shitty chess game with some elements of wizards chess. Did these motherfuckers really pluck inspiration from Harry fucking Potter? Right down to the kids being pieces??? Are y’all for fucking real??

Wait a goddamn minute the pieces being advanced upon can fight back? What sense does that fucking make? Unless the framing is really awful and I can’t see the space the pieces are fighting over? It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when Ruby’s calling out moves but the shitlord isn’t

And now it’s a full out assault? What is this game and why does it suck?

Normally I don’t notice music due to my auditory issues but the song coming out of nowhere with a jazz bit was so weird I missed like half the battle

Also RUBY YOU ARE HUGE SWEEP THE FUCKING BOARD DUMBASS

Wow .2 seconds of despair followed by an all out victory. Riveting

Ah the cat monstrosity. The first instance of gradients and it’s so atrocious

NOW LITTLE RECOGNIZES THE FUCKING CAT FUCK THIS GODDAMN MOUSE

Wait wtf Neo fell at the same time as Ruby right? Why is she just now shooting starred into wonderland. Why does she immediately waste energy shifting into Ruby and Cinder? Why would she even want to?

And why build up the twitch creature if it’s just going to be ganked off screen? I assume it’s going to be making a return considering the design but also why didn’t they have it do anything before being Neo’d?

At the very least this hints that Jaune won’t be appearing until later, if crwby can remember their own rules for 5 minutes. We might even be Jaune free a few more episodes! Took Neo 3 to show up so hopefully Jaune won’t make it til 6

#rwde #i cannot wait to see people try to defend this episode. literally nothing last ep had any real affects here #just now realizing they dropped pennys sword and nobody commented #ruby was sooooo drawn to it just to dump it like yesterdays trash #p much the only thing i liked was the diamond pupils of the prince. everything else sucked ass #i am just... astounded #i think they're trying to be this bad #either that or wrote the whole season on every drug known to man and even some unknown #what even was this episode. smash cut from them arriving to the castle to them getting chased #and the only thing missing would be the tiny team context #what a goddamn waste of time #i have work a 12 hour shift tonight i should be going to bed #but now im going to stay up forever fuming abt this waste of human energy #these mfs bled their animators dry for THIS #like its awful no matter the quality but this level of shitty writing is a slap to the goddamn face #bc who tf is going to look at this and be like 'yeah everything was shit but look at this shot i did aint it great?' #theres nothing here worth getting a hangnail for much less all but murdering your employees #gr8 job rt i hope you die in flames and drown in lawsuits #you will not be missed

[lightspren]

i left work an hour and a half ago and i think, finally, the All Consuming Rage has abated

#kit talks #there’s just so much to do. there’s so. much. to. do. #and i’m interrupted every five minutes #and i can never get caught up #and i do too much but there’s literally no one else to do it #they’re trying to hire more people but people keep quitting #and even besides that there’s like. physically no where in our clinic to put another person #i have a couple coworkers who are genuinely amazing and help as much as they can #but they’ve both got their jobs too and can’t always help #i’m just. i’m so frustrated and so tired. #i’ve been back at work three (half) days and it’s just. I don’t know how to balance this better #i don’t need advice btw it’s all complicated and ‘talk to your supervisor’ or similar won’t work #like literally my supervisor and office manager are just as overworked #what i really need to do is stop fucking caring. stop caring if i’m being nice while i’m doing 300 things #stop caring if i get shit done. stop caring if it’s backed up. i need to give less shots #*give less shits #but i’m not sure i’m like. capable of that lmao #no chill all the caring all right here #ugh. it’s fine. it’s fine. i’ll go play pokémon about it.

[discoreptile]

Zaptor from Elestrals!

#elestrals #pixel art #Hey gang another secret tag update #I am in talks with the guy who makes this and he's commissioning me to make every elestral :') #this is my first animation commission/job that will stop me from having to worry about commissions for like... months #maybe even a full year. who knows. But the point is I will finally be a big shot #My home and love life are comfortable as can be but I have been worried about money a little recently as commissions are sporadic #But... I'm actually on track to move to full time animation. I'm so excited. #Game is still under construction. Story is done and I'm still coding. Might need a new computer soon because this one is nearly a decade old #I'm so hopeful that the universe has finally thrown me a proverbial bone at least career wise #I have a small fanbase who is really really nice to me and I met a lot of friends there and I need to remember them when this all kicks off #Misty Ripley Heck are three that have been super supportive and I will help give back to them for keeping me afloat this whole time #Ashley has also been subscribed to me for a year. It's our year anniversary soon and I'm so nervous bc I'm not certain what to get her/do #Will just be grateful to have more memories w her. Might get a little trip away somewhere if she can get someone to watch pets #just checked. Nothing standing out but I'll figure it out now that money is significantly less of a worry #I guess that's nearly every one of my worries gone. Just gotta actually grind and finish game and I'll have nearly nothing to complain about

[happyendingsong]

i keep hmming and hawing over if i wanna keep doing artist alleys but i see the backpacks of weeb teens these days and it's all REALLY professional looking. and i know it's specifically artist alley merch because it's all heart badges and bunnyboy charms and tsum tsum knockoffs

#o #the standard for production for artist alley stuff shot wayyyyy up during covid #and it's much stiffer competition getting in in the first place #so it'd be footing the bill for massive production costs upfront with no guarantee id get a table anywhere #most of the irish con scene now are artists who are travelling and tabling at events across europe #like it feels like you have to make it your Job job if youve a hope of recouping costs #there are still smaller artsy markets but theyre definitely pushing towards original art #although i did table at one last december and there was a lot more fanart than i was expecting. also loads of dnd merch lmao #can one single one of my interests be profitable. please. #anyway this is all so completely firmly hypothetical because i have not drawn vaguely solidly in at least a year #😑 grrrrr bark bark get less scared get less scared

[cremainsinmorningrays]

they should invent having a job for people who get sick all the time and will never be able to stop getting sick all the time

#i got sick every other month for the first decade of my life #got a surgery to prevent that that made my immune system worse #and now ive got like triple long covid #trying to get over the flu is distressing #because now i am back to square one of this job where i just cannot take time off of work #and never taking time off for myself is just going to lead to me being sicker more often #i dont go anywhere i wear a mask i get all my shots and i am sick more often than anyone i know #which is still less than i even used to get sick #i need one of those old timey rich people wellness vacations #send me to a spa in the mountains so i can get good air for like a month #vic van dyke shit

[drs3x]

im not a violent person but if jeff bezos were within 5 miles of me i would sniff him out like a bloodhound and rip into his jugular with my teeth

#i hope every amazon driver and warehouse worker quits their job and receives a hundred thousand dollars immediately #speaking from experience those vans are. not kept in the best condition! DSPs regularly wear tires until theyre nearly bald #and until transmission is totally shot #because they dont want to pull vans out of the lot to do repairs bc thats one less van out delivering. Get Fucked

[supercantaloupe]

honestly starting to get really fucking tired of being TOLD that my work has value and is appreciated and would love it if somebody would actually fucking pay me for it already

#brought to you by my mood (currently in the dumpster) and weekly unemployment related thought spiral #like gd i know i've shot myself in the foot by choosing fields/interests that have pitiful fucking economic opportunities #but seeing my friends and acquaintances with as much or less experience than me getting jobs and internships and PAYMENT. #for the stuff i am continually passed up for. #well it simply does not feel very good. #i wanna talk about me

[dirt-mccracken]

My mom asked my yesterday if I was planning on moving and when I tried shrugging it off she pressed more asking "okay like 2 months or 2 years?" And I just finally snapped and told both my parents right then I've already been looking for jobs out of state it's just a matter of finsing work and a place to live and deciding where to go

#like I can move just abour anywhere assuming I find a job #i have friends in most corners of the country so like any livable city I could find help getting settled #i just #gotta commit to something and THAT is the scary part #once I find a house or a city or a job I cam commit to I'm there #and also if I go anywhere but Seattle I gotta find a way to explain that to my friends and family too #but I dont really owe them that but like #idk it really is a toss whether I want to stay where I have been or just move to the east coast for a but #and tbh the appeals of giving the east a shot become more obvious every day #including the most alluring of like. #having less long term connections and thus less expectations of who and what I am #and the freedom to rebuild somewhere new #but idkkkkkkkkk kill me