#individuals attend

[saint-ambrosef]

christians who dont go to church when they're on vacation are wild. why do you need a break from your religion.

#i imagine the issue for the more low church evangelical types is that they belong to a individual church #so they cant just like. attend any random one wherever theyre vacationing bc their beliefs are hyperspecific to their one church #but for the high church Christians (Catholics; Lutherans; Episcopalians; etc) i Do Not Get it #mea #also obviously this is about Christians who otherwise go to Church every sunday

[kbsd]

saluting the men and women in uniform (pilots and flight attendants). they are about to deal with so much shit in the next few days

#highly recommend getting a bag of (individually wrapped or it’s hard to share) candies or chocolates #to give to the flight crew when you board as a token of appreciation #i’ve done it every time i’ve flown for the past like 6 years #ever since a family friend who’s a flight attendant told us that’s what she does when she flies off-duty #because she knows that it always brightens a tough flight #anyway. be nice to airport employees i guarantee they are having a worse time with holiday travel than you #*

[chaldeanu]

rereading dr. ratio’s messages really humbles my english vocabulary…

#talking ノ #struggling and putting everything through the dictionary #i easily understand the overall meaning but i cry when trying to decipher individual words #oh how i dream of attending creative writing courses in english but there are none where i live ueueue #btw i love that ratio is such a spammer <333 i will read everything baby <333 #but star rail is not updating chat messages and he only has 3 options :(

[erelavent]

I'm sorry but the expectation that everyone who goes to a sporting event should know everything about that sport and should take a quiz before they're allowed entry is insane and absurd whether or not they have a VIP pass. I'm sure Felix and other drivers have been to sport, music or fashion events for cross promotion that wasn't their area of expertise and yet no one is asking for them to be quizzed before they're allowed to attend the red carpet or be interviewed. F1 and other motorsport invite celebrities to expand their audience. No one wants to watch a sport that makes you jump through hoops to be a fan 😒. It's literally entertainment, not public office, it's not that deep.

#the elitism is gross #if you have a problem with celebrities who know nothing about the sport attending take it up with F1/ the individual team #felix rosenqvist #f1 #indycar

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is listening to that little training video at work, that everyone has to take; and sees that it about respecting the LBGTQIA+ community; and then it brings up ally’s for the ‘A’ and nothing else.

Excuse me, but no! It’s for the ace, aro, and/or agender community!!

.

#baconandgrits #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod axel #genuine: bring it up to HR as an outdated reference #you don't have to come out to do that either just talk to like. whoever led the training or the HR department IN WRITING if possible #ie email #'hi XYZ i attended a training on [date and time] that included a video about the LGBTQIA+ community. In it there was a mistake #that i wanted to draw to your attention - the 'A' has been generally recognized as standing for the asexual aromantic and agender #communities for the last decade or so. in the video we watched it referenced it as standing for 'allies' which used to be code-word for #closeted individuals but no longer carries that meaning in this context. I was wondering if there was any chance this training could be #updated. Thank you for your time and commitment to a respectful workplace - [name / pronouns if you're comfy / position]

[sushisocks]

what do u think seans experience in reform school was like?? apparently the punishments were….well.

OH ANON!!!!! YES let's talk about this!!!!

So, a majority of the reform school horror stories that at least I've been hearing over the past few years have been largely been about schools that operated in the 20th century and into the 2010s at the latest, like the Dozier school or Elan. Then obviously there's the rest of the troubled teen industry but that's a more modern thing. Anyway, there's not a whole lot to go on for the late 1800's BUT I did manage to find a website which has a model for reformatory rules and regulations in 1890's Britain, which if nothing else, gives us something to go off in terms of what conditions could be like.

To start with, I think the fact that Sean was sent to reform school instead of other options interesting. Reform school was for delinquents; criminal children. Most likely, this means Sean was involved in criminal activity alongside his father - though, alternatively, it could mean whoever had to deal with Sean in the aftermath of Darragh's death, took one look at him and decided reform school was where he had to go.

Of course, Sean would never make life EASY for the officers and teachers of the school he was sent to. Not only is he there against his will, but those people and that place would, in his mind, all belong to the same entity which orchestrated his father's murder. That boy CAME to school with the intent to escape.

I think, with my HC of him having ADHD and dyslexia in mind, paired with his undoubted lack of respect for whatever authority figures that'd be at the reformatory, Sean would be singled out as a troublemaker from the get. It'd be one of those 'living up to expectations' thing from there, Sean making enemies out of the adults who were supposed to care for him and definitely coming up with ways to make their lives harder.

Sidenote; I definitely believe the little laugh Sean has after remembering his time in reform school was him reminiscing about all the pranks and shit he pulled to harass the workers there lmfao.

Of course, that also means he saw a LOT of the punishments they doled out. On the website they linked above, corporal punishment was VERY much on the agenda and I think Sean def saw the worst of it. I think an important aspect here is the understanding that once these things are seen as acceptable punishments, there's nothing stopping the person doling them out to up the severity of them despite regulations. A flogging shouldn't exceed 18 strokes nor a caning 8; but this offender has had several in the past few weeks and still keeps making trouble, lets add a couple extra just to get the message across.

I think the same goes for the punishments regarding isolation and meal deprivation; you can't tell me a young Sean already doesn't know the feeling of skipping meals out of necessity by the time he arrives at reform school - losing ONE meal as the regulations say with the assuredness of the next would do nothing to dampen Sean's spirits, nor a day in isolation.

Idk, Sean was truly desperate for money/food after 3 days, like that was when he tried to kill someone for it. Personally speaking, I go more than 12 hours without eating and I'd probably try to kill someone too. The 3 days speaks to a familiarity with hunger.

And idk, I definitely think Sean is used to being alone!!! It's why he likes being around people so much!! He grew up with only his father to rely on in the whole wide world, who probably HAD to leave Sean alone for prolonged amounts of time to do what he did as a Fenian & criminal. His scene in RDO also speaks to this; he gets lost and is on his own often!! It's not that he prefers it, but he is definitely used to it, and a day in isolation would probably make 0 difference to him fr!!

So, better up the ante to truly get those punishment across.

These are based on the British regulations for the time, mind! I couldn't find anything similar for the US, and I doubt there'd been a federal standard at the time, so I honestly imagine the punishments were more severe from the get, for Sean. Of course reform schools were supposed to be focused on reform over punishment, but when you're dealing with someone as possibly incessant and unyielding in their misbehavior as I imagine Sean was, punishment WOULD seem like the only option, with the knowledge they had at the time. I think he probably got the worse end of a LOT of it, because he wouldn't capitulate to the will of the reformatory very easily.

I don't think Sean stuck around for very long; around a year at most, I'd think. I also don't think he aged out of it, as the age of majority was 21 and it was more common for reform schools to set them up for some sort of legal work after 'graduating'. So yeah, he ran away, and promptly buried a lot of the bad shit he went through, as he is prone to do.

Thank you for this ask, anon!! I had a lot of fun thinking and reading about this, yall are REALLY indulging me here lolol

#I think reform schools were very individual based on the people who worked and attended there #especially when they were still in their infancy. they only really became a thing in the 1870s and onwards #but considering what the standard of treatment of children was at the time. that still means in general there was probably a lot of #bad shit going on even at the very start. before the power hungry abusers came in and started up schools like evan and dozier #dozier opened in 1900 did you know! evan in 1970 lol #they both closed in 2011 though. bcz of you know. all the deaths and abuse #anyway!! thank u anon for letting me theorize a lil on what reform school mightve been like for sean!! #obviously the answer was always gonna be BAD but yknow. sean is a trooper and a survivor in a lot of senses so #here we are!!! #sean macguire #red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #rdr2 meta #teki talks #rdr thoughts #asks #meta asks #rdr asks

[joyfuladorable]

Got new patches, so here’s an update of my Beloved jacket!! 🥰🥰🥰

#me pics #I’m shit at ironing so I’ve sewn each of these suckers on individually #the best fashion choice I've ever made #I love attending Cons and looking through Etsy to find More Patches #how many patches can I add before my movement is limited challenge lol #feel free to ask me where I got certain things and I'll do my best to answer!

[skruttet]

hey if i join this online workshop would i be expected to interact with people or do you think i could just lurk and watch? 🤔

#also it's at 6:30am my time RIP #it's not just for industry professionals they say just if you're interested in the process or are a fan of moominvalley you can attend!! #but then it says 'connect with like-minded individuals' so im like oh no will i have to show my face or something gfjdk #moominvalley #ok the platform as a whole is for industry peeps in malaysia id feel awkward joining gjhdfk

[themanwhowouldbefruit]

why do so many people say. transgender-ered.

#i had no idea this was such a big problem til i started having to attend. workshops and seminars and shit on working with diverse #populations. such as those transgenderered individuals.

[rxttenfish]

tbh tho this is EXACTLY what merfolk relationships look like

and they just keep track of this. in their heads. all the time.

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #they dont have gendered pronouns but they do have tone modifiers for every other fucking word depending on their relationship to the other #and their mood. and if theyre referring to multiple people at once or just one person. and often layered on top of each other too. #merfolk have poor vision but they DO inherently think of things in a more ''three dimensional'' way than we do #considering they live underwater and youre operating with another axis just to move around anywhere #which then gets applied to the rest of their everything #ESPECIALLY language because theyre nerds who went hard into the sound focus #their visual art in comparison has simpler elements than ours (but a lot more focus on light/movement) #this is why merfolk have some very unique spellcrafts and theyre notorious for complicated and detailed spellwork #like yes a part of it is the fact that theyre older than the other species and have had more time to work on it #but also they can just DO really unique things compared to other cultures because they emphasize layered detail in this way #this is also why - from the outside - so much of miranda's job looks like parties and balls and attending to the courts #because again. its all about the emphasis on who has what relationship with who and how to operate within that. #legal agreements are multilayered and come with terms and conditions a mile long and you need to have a very careful hand on the pulse #of all of this #even moreso because royal families go even harder with treating the lineage as the individual and the merfolk #as just limbs and organs of this equation #this is why it was so important that miranda be good at manipulation and speaking and just *charismatic* #literally making people do what she wants or needs them to do is just what makes the merkingdom GO and operate #and why she (and the other royals) occupy a space a little like a public performer does as well #and why royals showing personal favor and having close personal relationships is frowned upon as #mixing pleasure and business #since those relationships ARE their business and so much of the underlying politics #if youre showing undue favor to someone because you personally just like them then you aren't judging them based off of actual talent #merfolk complicated! merkingdom complicated! #(the merkingdom is also SUPER fucked up but thats tangential from this tangent)

[indecisive-v]

even if i don't actively play food fantasy anymore and open it like once a year, its soundtrack is forever seared into my mind and will always be a nice little set of comfort songs for me, be it from the fact that i used to be so insanely addicted to it when it came out when i was younger or the fact that it's just... a good soundtrack

when i feel panicked sometimes what it takes is just the sound of the gloriville theme to calm me down 👍

#food fantasy #btw quick flex i was part of a leaderboard guild as an f2p in my prime and almost made it onto an individual player leaderboard #i was a master of f2p master attendants back in my day!!!! #('ok nath lets get you to bed' you say as you push me back under the covers)

[tittyinfinity]

I don't think that kids should be exclusively homeschooled, but I also don't think that kids should be going to a building with hundreds of people 5 days a week during a pandemic. It's one of the main reasons why it keeps spreading so rapidly and won't go away. They don't take any preventative measures at schools anymore (at least not around here). You got kids? You're getting sick. Your coworker has kids? You're getting sick.

Schools are back to counting attendance. You can't even keep your kid home long enough to recover from covid before sending them back. They literally send a "truancy" (police) officer to your house if you keep them home too often.

I feel like we could be doing something better. I'm not entirely sure what the solution is. But this isn't it.

#.bdo #I tried homeschooling 3 kids at the beginning of the pandemic my ADHD is way too bad for that #this doesn't even touch on how I think the modern public school system needs to be abolished and rebuilt #the kids don't get enough breaks bullying isn't properly addressed the history they teach them is biased and/or outdated #attendance policies are ableist and classist and a fuck #PE shouldn't be something you're graded on and exercises should be given based on the individual child's abilities and needs #there should be more counselors and actual child psychologists in the building #school breakfast and lunches should always be free for every kid (thankfully they started doing that here in my town a year ago) #there should be different times of the day you can drop your kid off instead of one set starting time and one ending time #to work with different people's work and sleeping schedules #kids should not be required to be at school before 9 am but we have schools starting between 6:50am-7:20am now #my school years would have been 10000% easier if I could have started at 11am instead #kids need to be met at their level instead of forcing the same curriculum on everyone #MORE TEACHERS! More than one per classroom! Why are we making one person watch 30 kids at once! #this needs to be a whole separate post but I needed to get this rant out now

[pantestudines]

Anyone else have beef with random historical figures for no good reason. Had to make a presentation about Augustine of Hippo once for a shitty college class but I hated the book we were learning from (see tags) so I associated the two together and now everytime I see his name I furrow my eyebrows and say "Augustine..." like he's my nemesis

#see tags: i hated the book because it wasnt actually a history it was like. a motivational book? but by an author that clearly assumed #that the reader would both 1) be christian and 2) trying to stand out and be an exceptional leader individual #i and my friends were neither of these things tbh and we drew the line at when the author started talking about 'pagans' as a single group #and like. im talking about like. the author seemed to think all pagans were fantasy druids? and was UNCITED just talking about like #'pagans had no sense of time as a progression and only thought of time as cyclical' was the main thesis. which. what??? #it didn't matter what kind of pagan either as long as it fit the authors intention. im talking greek. celtic. native american. and more! #sometimes the author didnt even specify! he just would start talking about pagans like they all were homogenous and shared all beliefs #and because i had to present on THIS GUYS conception of Augustine i kindve just associate that author with augustine now lmao #sorrrrry augustine i know it wasnt you who did this but tbh what little i know about you you probably would've agreed #BY THE WAY #a happy ending! we talked to our professor about our issues with the book and he took it off the list for upcoming years #i wish i could remember the title but oh well #it was literally called like 'expreasing individuality' or some shit #leadership major future politician CEO nothingburger ass book #the whole class was also structured around that nonsense leadership and entrepenuer and ceo grindset type shit #(i took this class cause it was required for a good scholarship i had lmao) #... now that im thinking about it #this was also the class i attended while on the afterglow of LSD. #so uh. yeah. lmao

[chantlight]

being a Mortalitasi isn't all glitz and glammer, though. lower-ranking members of the order get all the fun jobs like environmental control [temperature, humidity, etc.], cleaning tombs and streets of the necropolis, lighting lamps, mummy maintenance [changing clothing, etc]. exciting stuff.

#OOC / HOLLY. #necropoleis are CITIES of the dead #someone's gotta sweep the streets man #[I've been wanting to write and Produce Content all day but my brain's been making the windows error noise #y'all get unpolished nonsense instead] #Mortalitasi do all sorts of stuff tho they aren't all directly involved in funerals #they're pretty spirit and death focused obvs but that's broad #you also need archivists and bookkeepers and etc y'know #like you're a mage and a Mortalitasi but if your true calling is accounting or city planning or conservation or Anything Else #boy do I have good news for you #esp with Mortalitasi technically claiming every Nevarran mage #[they aren't all initiated into the mysteries but this allows them to control their own education and keep traditions alive #and not have to build Circles + confine themselves to them. it's a loophole] #you aren't limited to purely magical career options #there ARE limits and there ARE concessions [i.e. tied to necropoleis; a degree of templar oversight; tracked and documented] #but we see Mortalitasi at least of high rank pretty much moving freely #you can attend university; you have access to training of various natures; you can pursue any career #oh god how does the order get its funding tho . . . #they make a profit from funerals. they'd get funding from the government and donations from wealthy individuals. #every day people undoubtedly donate too #then there's extra money to be made from the various services they can offer [enchantments; amulets; divination; the list is a mile long] #they basically have a monopoly on mages and magic #yeah they're not hurting for money esp when their power is at a peak

[pepprs]

lmaooooo i think i need to quit teaching forever and also bury myself in a hole. lol

#purrs #grading papers on a sunday and the WAYYYYY this one students paper just hurt my feelings so fucking bad. i mean it’s not just hers but like. #god. it’s the most childish thing in the world (which makes sense / is the literal problem. that i am a child.) but im coteaching this class #(WHICH I TOOK and my co-instructors were MY instructors and now im replacing one of them who’s also the one who left in july lol 😍😍😍😍😍😍) and #ive had WICKED impostor syndrome bc… not to air it all out but im airing it all out bc im so mad lol. they’re both older men with phds and w #wives and families and im a 24 year old in the first year of her career with a bachelors degree who stilllives at home w her parents and #also the two of them and the third instructor literaly developed this class together and again i TOOK IT as a student in their class 2 years #ago. so again… WICKED impostor syndrome. and the class is all abt figuring out how to thrive in different contexts that are constrained by s #social norms so it’s relevant to talk abt impostor syndrome and i have talked about it. and also i get substantial parts to lead in the #classes and whatever and take attendance and grade papers and send out emails to the whole class etc etc. so WHY are the other two #instructors getting shoutouts in the papers and i am getting… NOTHING!!!! naught a SINGLE mention. when i am literally fucking LIVING #THROUGH the things we’re taking abt in class abt the first year of ur career and impostor syndrome and shit……. oh iknow why! because they #don’t actually see me as an instructor because im short and a nothing girl and an IMPOSTOR!!!!! LOLLLLL 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 and the book chapter was the #same too lol like im the only co-author who doesn’t actually get individually named as making a contribution in the text of it and nobody #noticed but me because it’s a stupid thing to notice but i still noticed. awesome. i love being invisible and not actually mattering ♥️ < #<- has the mental illness that makes you utterly unable to see evidence of how you actually do matter and only hyperfocus on the evidence th #that you don’t <- but also is trapped in the psychijc prison of some parts of her environment telling her she does matter and other parts t #telling her she doesn’t so can you blame her for going CRAZY!!!!!!!!! like is this literally not the normal well adjusted reaction to have #to GENUINELY LEGITIMATELY JUSTIFIABLY upsetting thigns. when the circumstances are fucked up and deleterious 😍😍😍😍😍😍 #delete later #oh also im apparently not even an official instructor in Da System (which is a problem and it is not supposed to be that way) so i won’t #even get to read abt how the students fucking forgot about me and think im a nothing girl because they won’t even have a chance to give me #that feedback!!! lol. i think * and * should just do everything together because they are both qualified to do it. and i should spin off #into the abyss and quit my job and never be heard from again. that’s how this shit makes me feel. like ik it’s just a couple of students and #their opinions literally don’t matter but im like hm how about i go fuck off then since clearly i don’t make a difference to you. lole <3 #* i won’t get that feedback etc etc bc i am not going to get course evals because im not in Da System. lol ♥️

[ciderspunk2077]

Not to be self indulgent… but V(ance) going on a gig where he has to go undercover as a supermodel again

#taking to myself tag #Vk #Vance kusanagi #Venus Kusanagi #I also HC that They have been to Dogtown before the events of phantom liberty #but it was as a young teenager when they had to get chipped #and likely also did a fashion show there before that I imagine mister hands or Kurt Hanson attended #wtv high-value individuals are in Dogtown anyways. mostly bc ppl who attend pretentious fashion shows like that are always the wealthy elite #in the events of 2077 V(ance) attends the black sapphire party as Venus #he doesn’t like it but he has to. bc In the events of 2077 he hasn’t fully transitioned #he’s only recently found himself (the years that he lived with Jackie and mama Welles was rly what helped him find himself) #so he’s still like in the process of transitioning technically. first was socially (after getting fired and with his choom) #and then is rly early in the stages of testosterone #he’s getting there ❤️ #but yeah uhhhhh love the idea of him having to don his old title again before everything and before he was V/ance #esp cuz in 2077 we know how fucked the supermodel world is (very) so getting to relive that but as an older #more in control person. it probably feels much better and to a degree fills him with confidence of like ‘why was I ever afraid of others’ #‘why was I ever afraid of being a person’ #also he has his own guns and weapons and chrome now and he can do whatever he wants <3 #woody voice: shut up johnny I’ll kill you