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arrowverse-next-gen · 11 months

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Next gen on Facebook: Queen kids addressing mother’s day

#arrow on facebook #arrow #arrowverse #arrowverse next generation #next gen on facebook #arrow next gen #arrowverse next gen #arrow next generation #william clayton #mia smoak #thomas queen #elizabeth queen #miriam queen #wes chase #owen queen #ada queen #olicity

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thedepartmentofdiscoveries · 2 months

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#lol #funny facebook #star trek #uss enterprise #star trek the next generation #star trek next gen #star trek tng #data

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secretagentsagainstwhatever · 10 months

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ya know what i find funny about the whole tory party gate thing ? Gen z & millennials get accused of recording everything / putting everything online but i stg all my relatives aged like 40-60 (ish) have their cameras out at far more occasions then people my age, like yeah young people have their phones out but usually just showing each other dumb memes or whatever but the older generation want pictures of everything to go on facebook man…anyway yeah idk just thoughts

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aixelsyd13 · 6 months

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One last message from Levin?

Actual footage from a staff meeting about my recliner...

Have you read about our experience buying a recliner from @levinfurnituremattress? (Levin Furniture and Mattress/Levin Furniture and Mattress) Catch up here before I drop the latest communication from them: https://wp.me/pwqzc-3eo 🪑 I would love to hear your thoughts on how they or I could have handled the situation better. I don’t feel they owe me anything at this point. Where should we go…

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inthisuproar · 1 year

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Was going to write this as a reply to something but realized it needed its own post.

The tl;dr is that, from the looks of it, Automattic absolutely has every intention of turning Tumblr into a marketing media platform.

I work for a marketing company. I build websites.

Specifically, I build websites on Wordpress.org, which is operated by the Wordpress Foundation.

The Wordpress Foundation is the non-profit counterpart to the for-profit company Automattic.

Automattic, as we know, is the company that currently owns Tumblr.

Now, the thing about Wordpress.org (not to be confused with Wordpress.com) is that it's very, VERY popular amongst small businesses. Not only can you build a fully-customizable website with relative ease, you can also add an online shop using another Automattic product: Woocommerce.

Not too long ago, I noticed a new feature was added to Woocommerce: A button next to each Woocommerce product which allows you to Blaze them to Tumblr right from the comfort of your dashboard:

This is what I get when I click that little "Blaze" button...

As someone who understands these tools, I understand the potential implications of these features:

The Blaze feature is basically an up-and-coming ad campaign system that's directly integrated with Woocommerce websites, which I think is the first ad marketing system of its kind. You don't have to log into a social media account to advertise your products, use a second-party integration, or even pay another service to manage your social media ads. It's all baked right into your business's website.

THIS is their planned money-maker, folks, not the rainbow checkmarks or crab armies. And the reason why Automattic would do this kind of thing is simple: Businesses are wealthier than individuals. By implementing a B2B service, Automattic can make more money off of Tumblr than user subscriptions and shoelaces will ever provide.

It's all the same song and dance. Businesses can now shove more ads into your face in a new, convenient fashion. It'll be ads that don't look like ads disguised amongst ads that do look like ads, just like it is with Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and literally every other marketing media service that calls itself a "social" media.

(Tumblr's new video feature? My guess is that it's there to prepare for video-format Blaze campaigns. Influencer-style videos are the only kind of ad format Gen-Z is receptive to, which is why you're suddenly seeing videos on every platform.)

All they really gotta do now is make Tumblr look appealing to the normies so they can draw in a userbase that isn't trying to escape the onslaught of commercialism that plagues other sites.

Tumblr is one of the last true social medias we have; a place where content is made purely for the sake of talking about it. But given the writing on the wall...I doubt it'll stay that way.

#yells

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getvalentined · 15 days

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Was talking on the twits about how "not mine" isn't a source, and how you shouldn't be posting other people's art in general but definitely shouldn't be posting other people's art without at least linking back to them, and thinking about the most egregious example of this that I have personally experienced. I haven't really talked about it to anyone because it seems almost petty compared to the rest of the related situation, but bothers me more every time I think about it.

I think most of the people who know me are aware of my old in-character askblog, @askvincentvalentine; I'm redrawing all entries to eventually release as a solo anthology, but I have a lot of anxiety about it and it's going very slow. I think this hesitation (I might even call it apprehension) is in large part connected to this unspoken experience, and maybe finally talking about it will help.

A month or two before we broke up, I found out that my abusive ex had reposted every Ask Vincent Valentine entry to his personal Facebook, starting years before we really met, never linking back to Vincent's blog or to mine. He'd reposted a lot of my art, actually, and treated this like a totally normal thing, saying it wasn't a big deal since we didn't know each other at the time.

Looking back, it's a little...creepy. We met properly in 2020, but I remember him showing me a screenshot of a post he'd made in like 2015 where he reposted a piece of mine drawn in 2005, posted on my original dA account, under a different handle that is pretty much completely unconnected to my current online identity. I'm not saying he was stalking me for years or anything (I'd seen his fanfiction on AO3 for ages so it's not like we were unaware of each other's existence), but it still feels really fucking weird.

On top of that, by reposting it to that particular platform, he allowed my work to eventually be scraped to train multiple gen/A/I models without my consent. As if he didn't mistreat me enough during our relationship, he'd apparently been taking advantage of my work for years before that.

The more I think about it, the more it bothers me. Like...what the fuck, honestly. I don't have any other way to quantify it other than "what the fuck."

Just...why would he do that? And he didn't tell me about it until years into us knowing each other. When I said (as gently as possible) that I didn't like it, he said that he couldn't ask me back then because he didn't know me, so it was okay—and it would have been okay by now anyway, since we were in a relationship, so it wasn't like I was gonna tell him to take the posts down.

I don't know. It's bothering me a lot recently. Reposting other people's art without even trying to credit is bad enough, but this just feels like some next-level bullshit.

#personal #the [redacted] files

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kindheart525 · 5 months

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Do you have any really silly mane six headcanons

Twilight Sparkle once smoked weed during her equivalent of college and to this day is terrified that Celestia will find out (Celestia already knows)

Twilight has very little knowledge of memes and her friends frequently have to explain new slang to her before she causes political scandals (“no Twilight ‘kys’ does not mean ‘keep yourself safe’”)

Much like a real horse, Twilight often falls asleep standing up during her late-night stress & study sessions. Spike has had to wake her up and tell her to go to bed numerous times

Twilight was that kid who reminded her teachers there was homework when they forgot. Her classmates didn’t really like her for that

Her love life is very…active lol, including when she’s in a stable and committed relationship (like active within that relationship not as a serial cheater). She loves learning new techniques if you catch my drift

Fluttershy is surprisingly confident when she’s attracted to someone, and when she’s in a committed relationship she has a lot of fun facts about animal mating patterns to share with them for…no particular reason

Unlike Twilight, Flutters is surprisingly well-versed in memes because she’s learned a lot from Discord (and also Treehugger). She doesn’t really understand the humor in all of them but she’s aware of them

(In a universe where FlutterCord is canon) She had to absolutely fight for her life in the Mane 6 meetups when she told her friends she was dating/crushing on him

Daring Do eventually loses popularity, partly because so many of her books involve actual artifact theft and social attitudes have changed, and partly because ponies just moved on to newer book series. Rainbow Dash still remains her biggest die-hard fan even when she looks pathetic doing so

Rainbow Dash acts like a big baby every time Tank hibernates for the rest of her life (he outlives her) but after the first few years it’s kind of silly

This isn’t an idea I came up with but I really like all the jokes about RD writing really bad fanfiction, and it’s a headcanon I subscribe to

(Mostly a joke because I do ship her with mares outside of my next gens) Rainbow Dash is straight but has a lot of mares asking her out because of her mane, and it’s hard to get stallions because they also think she’s gay. She also has a hard time relating to her friends who all like mares

RD doesn’t take good care of her hooves because she flies all the time and forgets to trim them due to not walking very much. Because of this, they look funky and overgrown and her friends kind of clown on her for it

When she’s older, Rainbow Dash wrecks some of her joints trying to do stunts that she did when she was younger (like carrying her “little” sister). She has the worst midlife crisis out of all her friends

When Rarity was a filly, she used to create the most elaborate and dramatic plotlines with her dolls that easily measured up to any soap opera, with betrayals, love triangles, custody battles, the whole works

She enjoys listening to soul-crushingly sad music (like Marina’s discography) during her ice cream-crying sessions, in the process roleplaying a life much more dysfunctional than she has because it helps her cope with her actual problems. Also listens to that music in a good mood if she needs to be inspired for a certain fashion piece

She overstocks her supplies to a sometimes comical extent, like she has 400 refills for her bedazzler machine. How does she have room for all that stuff? A lady never reveals her secrets, darling✨

Applejack loves singing country songs like “Thank God I’m A Country Colt” and “International Harvester” at the top of her lungs, they literally never fail to get her hyped up

(In a human context, ignoring Equestria Girls) it took her awhile to learn that Apple Bloom had TikTok and other social media accounts because she only uses Facebook on her clunky home computer

AJ is incapable of enjoying any kind of sitcom because she’s always poking holes in the plot. Her least favorite storylines are the “caught in a lie” and general miscommunication tropes

She also can’t watch well-written, dramatic tv shows either if any of the characters behave dishonestly (such as Breaking Bad)

Pinkie and Cheese once performed “Amish Paradise” for her parents and sisters (even in universes where they aren’t a couple). Reactions were VERY mixed

Also some of my “how they explain the birds and the bees to their kids” headcanons for my next gens are pretty funny

Fluttershy is really good at explaining the whole life cycle (including reproduction and death) because taking care of so many animals means she’s seen it all. Nothing squicks her out anymore. She explains things matter-of-factly but gently as she guides her little ones through various examples involving her animals.

Twilight would do a good job and be comfortable with it but she would also go overboard, giving a college-level lecture about the full reproductive process when her 10 year old daughter only wanted to know what going into heat meant. Twi’s partner calls Fluttershy in to help for the kid’s sake.

Rarity buys her daughter the pony equivalent of those Care & Keeping of You books (and her son gets the male equivalent of those books). She uses those books to bond with her kids over “becoming a mare/stallion.”

Applejack is very overprotective of Apple Bloom and probably procrastinated on giving her “the talk” only to find out that AB already learned from the other CMC (especially Scoot “left completely unsupervised 24/7” aloo /hj). A similar deal would probably happen with her own kids as well unless her partner is better about it. Even though, years before, Granny Smith was very straight with AJ like “ya wanna know how our new batch of chicks was made?”

Pinkie isn’t uncomfortable with the talk at all, except her explanation gets so convoluted and off topic that her kids go off to ask someone else.

Rainbow Dash says “go ask your father”

#AskKind #KindsThoughts #mane 6 #twilight sparkle #fluttershy #rainbow dash #rarity #applejack #pinkie pie #headcanon #my little pony #mlp fim #mlp g4 #asks open #send asks #send me asks #ask me stuff #ask me things #ask me anything

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carbonateds-oda · 1 year

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ada hcs cuz I’m bored and i miss them (spoilers !just in case)

ranpo likes to wear funky socks and the younger members like to guess which ones he’ll end up wearing that day

dazai likes to doodle on sticky notes and placing them everywhere (he was asked for a cow by kenji and he ended up sticking it on his forehead so there was just a day where kenji was walking around the agency w a sticky note on his face)

they all kept calling kunikida mom as a joke and one time he got so fed up he was like “the next person who calls me that is gonna get $100 taken off their paycheck every mothers day as compensation” the president somehow agreed and now dazai has to fork over $100 every may

kyouka and yosano have shopping days together and no one is allowed to interfere (they’re all too scared to anyway)

dazai has tried to convince everyone to start doing the cat pspsps thing to get atsushis attention (no one indulged him but the one time he tried it act worked and atsushi was too mortified to work after that so he’s not allowed to try again)

they taught kenji how to use a phone and now he sends everyone those facebook mom good morning images and inspirational quotes everyday

ranpo sends fukuzawa cat memes and he is just so confused abt it

yosano and dazai occasionally like to go out for drinks and they usually end up ranting abt mori (shamelessly pushing my yosano and dazai considering each other siblings after having to both deal w mori agenda) they sometimes invite kunikida and get him drunk for entertainment

haruno and naomi like to surprise the others with pastries as thanks for their work

everyone always finds it amusing how compliant dazai is towards ranpo and that he gen admires how smart he is esp since he used to avoid him like the plague back before anyone knew abt his pm days

junichiro and atsushi like to play board games together during breaks

kunikida has a whole stash of pens in his desk drawer cuz the others nvr know what else to gift him and he uses specific ones for different things

kyouka got into knitting and made everyone scarfs for their bdays

kenji noticed dazai getting rlly gloomy sometimes so he got him a tiny plant for his desk to take care of and keep him distracted

the president likes to take turns inviting each of them out for tea to make them more comfortable around him cuz he knows he looks intimidating asf

#I’m finally catching up w the manga and it’s making me miss them terribly #bsd headcanons #bungo stray dogs headcanons #bungou stray dogs #armed detective agency #bsd ada #ada hcs #armed detective agency hcs

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usafphantom2 · 4 months

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I wanted to share this from my private Habubrat SR 71 Facebook page. This page has not been hacked.

Short story of her love to Blackbird.

As first I wanted to say hello to everyone in the group, especially for Linda Sheffield Miller for creating such an amazing community circled around Blackbird - that's really stunning.

I wanted to share a story - a story of my wife who is actually too shy to talk about her love to Blackbird. Not too many of people outside of US here on the group I'd say, so it may be worth a while reading about this 🙂

Karolina (or Caroline in English) is 29 this year, we've been married for 3 years now. She is mechanical engineer that ended university of technology in 2014. From when I remember, she always had Blackbird on her wallpaper on Laptop and phone. As I'm Polish armed forces officer (we come from Poland) , the background of it was also interesting to me, so many years ago she told me a story of herself.

She is the kind of woman that never played Barbies, she was the Lego kid playing with cars, dreaming of Jaguar E-type and flying through space. When we met, she knew (and still does) know more about cars than I do.

Her dream was always to build Next gen Blackbird - anytime someone asked about her wallpaper, she said the history of it and how awesome it is (they only tried to small talk but she instantly went all in for telling about it 😅).

When she finished UoT, she worked for the company making parts for planes, but she recently changed the job to be a part of the team creating jet engines. It's her dream job right now, but still keeps saying that her future lays in Lockheed Skunk Works.

Last year we had delayed honeymoon, 34 days in United States to see as much as possible from what we only saw in movies.

We visited Kennedy Space Center (it's great for real), where she was amazed and almost cried seeing Saturn V. But the real thing was just coming.

When we arrived in the Washington, the only thing she was waiting for was going to Udvar Hazy Air and Space Museum, where one of the Blackbirds stands.

You can only imagine how she reacted seeing it when we stepped on the gangway above SR-71. She cried her eyes out, but positively.

There was a guy (expert) on a big screen right next to Blackbird, who was actually connected through Skype or something, so we could talk with him and he could tell us the story of this plane. I remember them talking for some time with her making notes of what he said and she didn't know.

When we came back to Poland, with the help of my friend, I decided to make her a scale model of Blackbird. Since I like a little bit of engineering myself and I have 3D printer, I designed the exhaust fumes with Mach diamonds to be lit

When she saw it lit up, she cried again, the same as she did in US when she saw the real one. She is crazy about the Blackbird even more than she was before, but too shy to talk about it outside of her group of friends - maybe your reaction will make her open up a little more in here.

@Habubrats71 via X

Hope the story wasn't too long - since this group exists and I watched Lindas Habubrats for some time now, I always wanted to share it. The fact this plane and community around it is so amazing that the plane itself has fans all over the world.

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arrowverse-next-gen · 6 months

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next gen on facebook: a lot going on here

#savannah morgan #cami rodriguez #owen queen #danny morgan #arrowverse next gen #arrow on facebook #next gen on facebook

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poopyballz28 · 2 years

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Some Baki characters on Facebook (💀)

Had this stupid idea, enjoy

Baki is pretty average. He just posts pictures with Kozue and stuff. Nothing particularly notable besides the death threats on every one of his posts 😭

Kozue's is really sweet, its a lot of pictures of her and her friends or Baki with cute little filters over them. There's a lot of date photos of her and Baki and they are so adorable.

Spec only types in ALL CAPS and makes these very aggressive statuses toward everyone especially toward the official Hanayama group fb page it's hilarious

"THESE DAMN GEN ZS ARE RUINING MY LIFE 😡😡😡👹👺🤗🤬🤬"

"HANAYAMA MORE LIKE HANDICAPPED 😂😂🤣🤣👹👺🤬 LOVE SPEC ❤️"

He one hundred percent has posted this

Kaoru has a fucking flip phone he does NOT have Facebook. Kizaki runs the Hanayama group fb page

I imagine Yuujirou posts the dumbest shit. Like he'll upload a status saying "about to go fuck up some kids" then like an hour later he posts a picture of him all bloodied up in a car with sunglasses on, smiling at the camera with the caption "i beat the shit out of those losers" He also cannot stop threatening people and challenging to fight them. I imagine his account has been banned like 3 times but he "befriended" the Facebook admins and now he is literally invincible irl and online

Doppo's fb would be hilariousss. He'd post pictures of him just going through daily life. There'd be a picture he took of him and Natsue on a date at a fancy restaurant with the caption "With bae 🤞❤️" (yes he knows hip lingo and uses emojis) There would be a picture of Katou, Suedou, and Katsumi chilling on a bench looking at their phones with Doppo in the frame with the caption "Hanging out with my boys 🔥"

There'd be a picture of Katsumi awkwardly standing next to a grill with a spatula and a pink apron on and the caption would be "Autism be damned my boy can work a grill 🙏"

Retsu's whole page only consists of Shinshinkai advertisements, pictures of the sky and scenery he took, and weird daily wisdom reposts

Katou is just there for the meme. He usually uses twitter or Instagram or something but he has some friends on fb so he has it. He usually just comments dumb assoholic shit on peoples posts and eggs on old people because he is the worst.

Katsumi has a lot of pictures of him and his students or friends BUT SO MANY THIRST TRAPS LIKE...we get it your boobs and muscles are big we understand. and like what if your dad sees that dumbass. I imagine he'd be mortified. And when I mean mortified I mean he'd immediately laugh then make fun of you forever. Anyways there'd probably also be like some random fucking picture of him kicking a dummy looking cool with some dookie ass caption "Train hard and achieve. 💪"

Katou in the comments of one of Katsumi's weird thirst trap posts like "bruh 💀"

#baki the grappler #baki dou #baki headcanons #baki son of ogre #baki hanma #anime #anime memes #katou kiyosumi #kozue matsumoto #retsu kaioh #hanayama kaoru #doppo orochi #manga #spec baki

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latinotiktok · 6 months

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Cuando yo empecé mi travesía por el mundo del fanfiction por allá en el año 2013, fue porque una amiga nos recomendó al grupo un fic de SHINee, y ahí mi vida cambió (ahre). Era en Facebook, en la descripción de la foto del cantante iba el capítulo y hasta yo escribí y publiqué fanfic así, hasta que eventualmente me gradué de lemons y fics de secuestro de SHINee para pasar a wattpad a leer the h*rry p*tter, desde la hija de voldemort fic número 306745 hasta como que todos los fic de next gen viajes en el tiempo en la que la siguiente generación se tiene que presentar con los originales (horrible y cringe but i ate it up), y por fin me liberé del mundo de los fics para leer historias originales en wattpad como "que tal si los hombres quedaran en estado casi que infantil y las mujeres dominaran el mundo pero un hombre despierta y se da cuenta de lo al revés que está el mundo y la chica que era su dueña le toca decidir si ayudarlo a liberar a los hombres o dejarlos sin capacidad de voluntad". Eventualmente volví fuerte al fanfiction por... *checks notes* la parodia de drarry que aparece en el libro titulado fangirl, que eventualmente llegó a ser su propio libro. Ok. Sure. Anyways. De ahí llegué a voltron y nunca volví a dejar de leer fanfiction

Anyways alguien más aquí leyó "prohibido enamorarse de adam walker"?

Qué parodia de drarry??? Me interesa

#asklatinotiktok #el fenomeno de fics que se vuelven libros posta me vuelve loca

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aixelsyd13 · 6 months

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Well, I 𝘸𝘢𝘴 done with Levin. Then they emailed a customer satisfaction survey. 🤣

Talk about not being able to read the room...

Well, I was done with Levin. Then they emailed a customer satisfaction survey. That triggered me again. Here’s what I sent back. Then I dug up as many corporate names as I could, and their email syntax. I know some landed, because about three minutes after I hit send they were calling my wife. Here’s what I said: 💻 Hello Friends, I recently had what we’ll call a horrendous experience with…

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fujimusume · 1 year

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Thunderbolt Fantasy S4 Begins Filming (+ My Translation of Gen Urobuchi's Comments)

Earlier, the official accounts for Thunderbolt Fantasy and Pili announced (in Japanese and English, respectively), that filming of S4 has begun.

Pili's official Twitter and Facebook accounts linked to an article in Chinese with more photos and details regarding the kick-off ceremony.

Meanwhile, TBF's Japanese Twitter account posted a bit of commentary from Gen Urobuchi regarding this bit of news, which I translated via a Twitter thread and am now cross-posting here.

Please do not repost my translation without crediting; link to this post or my Twitter thread instead.

If I have time and/or no one beats me to it, I'll try translating Pili's article as well, though at this point my Japanese is better than my Mandarin... 😅

Comments from Gen Urobuchi in Honor of Thunderbolt Fantasy S4's Start of Filming

What are your expectations for the sequel? What do you have in mind for this production?

Urobuchi: Post-Season 3, I’ve been crafting the plot as a series of vignettes that take a lot of twists and turns.

This next installation is precisely the point when the story reaches the climax.

I want to make the most of the heightened feeling that we’re heading toward the end.

What aspects of filming are you excited for?

Urobuchi: This time, we’re going to dig rather deeply into & shed some light on the past secrets of the main characters.

I’m really looking forward to seeing how those scenes will be translated to film.

Please share some words for fans who have been eagerly waiting for the sequel.

Urobuchi: Thanks to everyone’s support, TBF has been able to become a much longer series than originally envisioned.

We hope to deliver to our fans a superb work that conveys our gratitude to our fans & doesn’t betray their expectations. Please keep the support coming!

#thunderbolt fantasy #thunderbolt fantasy season 4 #thunderbolt fantasy s4 #東離劍遊紀 #サンファン #if we're not getting a prequel movie sometime in the future or at all may we please have a crumb of shangwan adventure era #please pili and urobuchi i'm begging you for a wan jun po cameo #i miss him very dearly

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limerental · 6 months

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ficletvember 2023 - day 2

thronebreaker corporate modern au

gen but implied meve/reynard and implied gascon/reynard

Under pressure to compete with Nilfgaard Industries, Meve must hire a social media manager to save her company from bankruptcy. Unfortunately, the only applicant is Gascon.

Meve got into the office later than she'd like, having slept through several alarms after a night's sleep as poor as usual.

If she hadn't been urged home by her well-meaning assistant, she would have stayed up half the night and slept on the horrible sofa in the corner of her office and oken just as sore and grouchy.

But at least on time.

The drive in on her motobike, ordinarily enough to lift her spirits, served only to remind her that summer would be over soon.

The morning air had taken on a chill, her curled fingers wind-beaten and stiff as she parked in the garage. Every month that passed only served to remind her of the sorry state of her company's finances. She dreaded the next quarterly report.

If they didn't turn it around by the end of the year, then everything she'd worked for could be lost.

She startled Reynard at his desk as she dropped her bag and helmet in a haphazard pile.

The man had donned his mustard yellow office cardigan that lived draped over the back of his chair. Another sure sign of fall approaching. He looked as exhausted as she felt, eyes bruised beneath the wire frames of his reading glasses.

Must have slept here. The hypocrite. She'd have to remember to urge him home tonight before he could urge her.

"Morning, ma'am," Reynard greeted with his usual grimace of a smile, "your interview is waiting for you in th' board room."

"My what?"

"The social media manager position, ma'am. Your only applicant."

Meve groaned.

She'd hoped to grab an espresso from the temperamental machine down the hall before even thinking of speaking to anyone.

Wordlessly, Reynard interrupted her downward spiral by presenting her with a steaming cup he'd had ready. Sixth sense for any small thing she needed, that man.

"I'd crash and burn without you, love," Meve said and did not miss the man's flustered fiddle with the tidy papers on his desk. She hid a smile against the rim of her espresso. A smile that faded as she prepared mentally for the task at hand.

An interview. For a social media position that didn't seem wholly necessary.

The company'd gotten on just fine for years without any accounts and with a bare bones website updated once a year.

Or maybe not.

They were facing potential bankruptcy after all. Mostly thanks to the looming threat of their main competitor, Nilfgaard Industries. Nilfgaard likely had a whole office dedicated purely to managing their internet presence.

She and Reynard had briefly given it a go themselves, hunched together over Meve's aging laptop, but neither were anything approaching technologically savvy. Or sociable. Meve had last logged into her Facebook years ago after tiring of bigoted relatives, and Reynard's tech knowledge began and ended with a bizarrely intimate relationship with the office fax machine.

In other words, they'd both floundered and given up quickly.

Meve glanced at the portfolio handed over by Reynard, her brow furrowing.

She tipped back her coffee, grimaced, and made for the board roam.

*

The man who waited for his interview had kicked his feet up on the conference table, wide-brimmed cap sifting askew on his head.

It was maybe a little generous to call him a man. His resume claimed he had a degree in Public Relations from a reputable university, but he looked no older than her own teenaged sons.

He also appeared to be sleeping, his head fallen against his shoulder.

Meve cleared her throat.

A small, shaggy dog suddenly began to bark as it leapt at her from beneath the table, which nearly startled Meve into dropping the dregs of her espresso and prompted the boy to wake.

"Down, boy!" he called, laughing, and the little beast gave up on bouncing against her legs to skitter back under the table.

"Um," said Meve, dumbfounded.

The boy stood to greet her, dimpled grin more charming than it should have been given the circumstances.

"Gascon," he said with a vigorous shake of her hand. "And you've met Knickers. I'm his emotional support dog."

"Right," she said. "Pardon me a moment."

*

Reynard grimaced at her in sympathy.

And yet, he'd failed to warn her. The bastard.

"Reynard, there's an imbecile in the board room. Are you certain that–?"

"Yes," said Reynard morosely.

"And do we really need–?"

"Yes, we do."

"And he was truly the only–?"

"Unfortunately."

Meve sighed.

*

Gascon had returned to his presumptuous lounge, his boots dirtying the conference table. He waggled his fingers at her in greeting.

Intent on getting this over with as quickly as possible, Meve sat across from him, lips pursed. Rarely one for rigid formal office decorum, she sat prim and still with her legs politely crossed for once.

The boy didn't take a hint.

He tipped back his chair onto two legs, clasped hands folded across his chest. He'd deigned to wear a dress shirt at least, but one so wrinkled and buttoned so haphazardly that he may as well have worn a track suit and appeared more put together.

"May we begin?" Meve asked and didn't wait for Gascon's sweeping gesture to go on before cracking open the folder before her.

On paper, he seemed well-qualified for the position, as far as she could tell. A sizeable following on several platforms Reynard had suggested they target. Several internships and professional references.

Unfortunately, his list of accolades veered increasingly into the absurd the further down the list she scanned. A successful SoundCloud. Viral TikToks. Under managerial experience, he had listed–

"It says here that for the past five years your only source of employment has been," Meve adjusted her reading glasses, stolen from Reynard's stash of extras, "moderating a Minecraft server."

"Oh yeah, and th' discord," said Gascon. "Hard fuckin' work. Full-time gig."

"Right," said Meve stiffly, regretting every decision she had made in her life up to this point, most chiefly in choosing to take over her late husband's company after his untimely passing rather than doing something more sensible and less likely to leave her most likely forced to hire this idiot.

She flipped through several more pages of the boy's portfolio.

Only to go still as she was greeted with an elaborate drawing of a cartoon dog with truly alarmingly large breasts stretching tight its shirt, its tongue lolling out and eyes crossed.

"Oh, I can design a mascot," said Gascon cheerily. "Figure this boring old joint needs one. Could print somethin' like that on your business cards."

Meve breathed slowly through her nose.

She focused very intently on imagining the fate of the company if something couldn't be done to bring in more revenue. Forget her own income and livelihood, her employees and their families relied on her. Nilfgaard's recent monopoly on the industry meant if this place went under, there'd be no choice but settling for its appalling labor practices and questionable ethics.

She had very little choice.

Unfortunately, this overgrown child of a man with his yappy dog and utter lack of professionalism might be their last hope to break into new markets and turn the company around.

Even worse, as Gascon chattered on happily about his several step plan to build their platforms, she noted that nothing he said sounded overly absurd.

She had no choice but to hire him.

Much whooping and ridiculous howling followed her announcement. The little dog danced on its hind legs like a circus act, and the boy stopped to film it, cackling.

Meve sighed even more deeply.

*

Though Meve feared she would regret her decision, some of her reservations were tempered by the amusing sight of Reynard flushed pink as Gascon leaned flirtatiously across his desk to speak with him, mussing carefully organized documents.

Her reservations returned tenfold when Knickers lifted its leg on the edge of the desk.

#my fic #this is deeply silly lmao #don't think too hard about what the company does. idk either #witcher fic #thronebreaker

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The Daily Dad — 2024-04-01

Things you might want to know:

Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals ❝ Use of "Lenna" image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s.

The T-Mobile Sidekick’s Jump button made mobile multitasking easy 💭 I always liked the Sidekick, but I ultimately settled on a Palm Treo… the app ecosystem was solid on PalmOS. Of course, it took about six months for iPhoneOS to surpass it, so there wasn’t as much difference as I thought in the moment.

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The Facebook 'Poke' is being revived by Gen Z 💭 What the hell, Gen Z? You’ll just unironically click anything out of boredom, won’t you? What’s next? Will we go back to hazzing cheezburgers, only this time the photos will all be AI-generated pictures of animals actually having cheeseburgers?

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Stephen Bear to pay £27k over illegal sex tape of Georgia Harrison ❝ The 34-year-old is told to pay back the money he made from illegally sharing sexual footage.

Yellowstone actor "kicked off" plane because he didn’t want to sit next to masked passenger 💭 Is there anyone on Yellowstone who isn’t an asshole?

A Marijuana Boom Led Her to Oklahoma. Then Anti-Drug Agents Seized Her Money and Raided Her Home. ❝ A year after authorities arrested Qiu He, the Chinese immigrant has yet to be charged with a crime. She and others say anti-Asian bias plays a role in the state’s crackdown on the pot industry: “I don’t feel secure here.”

How Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's Queer, Non-Traditional Marriage Inspired 'Drive-Away Dolls' ❝ “Being married to Ethan and being queer, there’s always a little disconnect sometimes,” Cooke said in a recent interview.

The creators of 3 Body Problem want to have ‘a back and forth’ with the book 💭 That’s a fun way to say “we didn’t know what to do with it, so we ‘fixed’ it.”

A Deepfake Nude Generator Reveals a Chilling Look at Its Victims ❝ WIRED reporting uncovered a site that “nudifies” photos for a fee—and posts a feed appearing to show user uploads. They included photos of young girls and images seemingly taken of strangers.

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Homeland Security reportedly raids Sean “Diddy” Combs’ houses in L.A. and Miami ❝ Combs has been hit with several lawsuits over the last few months

'Spermworld': Hulu Documentary Looks at Facebook Sperm Donors ❝ In Hulu documentary 'Spermworld,' director Lance Oppenheim looks at sperm donors and prospective parents using Facebook groups to connect.

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Jeffrey Jones' face might be in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but the rest of him isn't ❝ A rep for the Beetlejuice and Ferris Bueller actor, who was forced to register as a sex offender in 2003, confirmed that Jones does not appear in the film

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