#no hope for change anytime soon :

[youspeakshit]

re: lando norris, starbucks, F1 and boycotts

the first rule of Formula 1 is understanding these privileged men do not give a shit. they partake in the most elite sport there is, where only 20 people can do it at a time. it's a bubble of money and luxury they thrive whitin.

just don't put anyone on a pedestal or your hand on fire for any of them. not even the ones that seem like the good ones.

personally, I expect the bare minimum of no homophobia, no racism, no sexual misconduct or assault. but I do not expect them to care about world problems as strongly as we do. bc if all went to shits they will run to a safe mansion, and we'll be the ones left to survive.

embrace fandom and friendships, the fun of the races and the drama, sharing gifs and fics and edits, and put THAT above your favorite driver!

#eveytime a driver i like has a bad race i think it's the universe keeping the balance and humiliating this hot millionaire #formula 1 #f1 #text post #lando norris #like the level is so low i dont even expect them to be faithful partners to the WAGs 😭 #not even seb and lewis are safe from this btw #i say this so ppl dont upset themselved too much abt them #NOT defending the drivers at all #i wish it wasnt like this but the elitism of the sport has only gotten WORSE so.... #no hope for change anytime soon :/ #charles leclerc #max verstappen #lewis hamilton #george russell #discourse

[queerofthedagger]

my 'hey yes we have an all-consuming brainrot going but let's try and do something actually productive this week that I'm having off of work' project is sorting through my bookshelves, rigorously throwing things out (little miss I own over a thousand books in my one-room apartment is reaching the breaking point aka I'm finally and utterly running out of space) and i think i threw out almost a hundred books today and it's still not anywhere close for sorting shelves by genre without having to stack and put things second row. how am I supposed to live like this

#*mine #mona rambles #I've already put a book buying ban on myself until i catch up with my tbr of owned books #unfortunately for me then tolkien took over my brain so while i /am/ only more or less buying my 2 allowed books per month #they're all his stuff and I'm not making a dent in said tbr at all while also having very little hope that this is going to change anytime #soon #i do have a rough sorting now by like.... #fantasy / other fiction / queer + feminist + antiracist theory / other non-fiction / poetry / classics / philosophy / language + travel /et #but it's really more of a suggestion and really testing the limits of like.... shelf space lmao #i'll have to catalogue all of it too once i'm done to see what my actual tbr is at and like. man. terrifying #but also i just think someone should pay me money in exchange for 5-50k words per month so that i can move and have a library. it's time

[phosphorus-noodles]

Kinda funny to be me and rb a bunch of religious things after church and then watching my blog lose like 3 followers in 5 minutes like sorry I was being tooo religious and cringe for you I guess?? :/

#probably for the best. it’s not really gonna change anytime soon ^^ #yeah I’m queer. yeah I’m Christian. yeah you can be both #sorry I find joy and peace and hope in my beliefs ^^ #pho.posts #anyways. cheers! hiii queerstake i heard this happens a lot yeah? #yeah. wouldn’t expect anything else tbh /lh #queerstake

[persimnon]

mayday, mayday!

#in no way do I think tumblr is going down anytime soon #but i’ve realized I’ve always had an naive sort of idea that tumblr would be a constant in my life and forever evolve as I grow #it is just that intertwined with the way i use the internet. i have been here nearly every day since a month after i turned twelve #like i hope this isn’t pathetic to admit but this place was and is a cornerstone of my adolescence #tumblr is my word of mouth. it is my fandom home base. it is my diary sometimes #and it’s not that I can’t learn to use another platform. it’s that the continuity is important to me #my blog is a stream of every love and passion and obsession of my entire teenage hood and as of now the beginning of my adulthood #the thought of having to move somewhere new and break off from this massive and fundamental chunk of my life is hugely upsetting #not to mention my mutuals! and everyone I follow! it’s impossible to round everyone up again if. god forbid. we all have to leave here #and of course blah blah blah everything in life is temporary learn to accept change yada yada #but it’s been part of me long enough where i have a hard time picturing how i could even go about leaving this behind #anyway. nothing bad is happening yet. I’ll stay here until it breaks entirely #blither blather bother

[night-is-a-feeling]

One Direction and their discography as Astrological Colour Wheels

• One Direction •

• Up All Night • Take Me Home •

• Midnight Memories • Four • Made In The AM •

full collection here

#i'm obsessed with how similar UAN and TMH are #so soft and bubbly and then we get to MM and it starts changing getting a little denser #then four comes in lacking almost any of that airiness thats so prevalent in the first two pushing forward this darker tone #and then MITAM comes in and is just the... comfiest? i want to say #its cooooool to me!!! #anywaaayyysss #i hope someone on here likes these lmao cause i'm really enjoying making them again and i wont be stopping anytime soon #one direction #zayn malik #liam payne #harry styles #louis tomlinson #astrology #one direction astrology auras

[whysamwhy123]

Hmmmmmmmm, Hook fucking OC up against a wall and then making him thank him and tell him he's the best, because Hook has to be a little shit about everything and Orange hates/loves it.

#Nothing to see here folks move along... #Just me choosing violence and being a little H word on main whoops-a-blooming-buttercup #Honestly it might just be a good thing that I can't write smut y'know? #Y'all better hope that doesn't change anytime soon...

[stupidusernamepolicy]

The nd urge to think you can fix a situation if you just explained it more and better and more and better and mo

#i be gettig into arguments on twitter and then going hm. i couldve handled that better </3 #which like i really dont care if people hate me or find me annoying but id hate for my friends to be implicated by proxy #or that the opinion of a character i like goes down because I was rude about something #also anxious because cough. its a case of me as a neurodivergent person talking about ableist attitudes in a fandom #like yeah maybe its not that deep to you but seeing a character you relate to having death wished upon them for traits u have in common #is fucking uncomfortable! even if its an exaggaration it obviously has contempt at its core! #and i wish it wasnt so normalized as far as to be considered the 'default' rather than very fringe take on the character! #i hope people are cool about this but like lol as far as being mindful of lgbt and nd people noragami fandom is absolutely cooked #and im sad to say ultimately i have little hope about this changing anytime soon #admin rambles

[southie-dakotie]

I had to log in on my work computer to block someone from a sideblog and holy fucking hell is that really what the site looks like now.

#Key Speaks #ive had xkit on my laptop for over a year or so. seeing the site in its natural state is kind of... Horrible! #i hope they don't change the app anytime soon ill start screaming bloody murder

[salsflore]

ummmm

#oh mika there is beauty in life~ look at your future! everything will be worth it in the end~ #my favorite image on this device btw ^ #cw negative #cw vent #you know where this is going. apologies my mind is a mess and i really just need to get it out because i find its better than- #-writing a semi formal email to that One (1) emotional support organization and i’m afraid to make a call so #but i just genuinely believe things would be better off if i weren’t alive. a bit of a silly thing to jump to i know but #my tuition fees aren't cheap and i'm not even that great of a student or a daughter or a sister and i- #-have no talents or remarkable feats. i’m not impressive in any way. and i hate hearing shit about how ^_^ its okay! we all have something- #-special about ourselves! for example maybe you have really good hand writing and thats good enough ~ but that doesn't work for me because- #-i have nothing. my handwriting isn't good my singing isn't good i'm not artistically gifted i don't have some random affinity for puzzles- #-i'm not charming or somehow really good at calculation or super creative or a really comforting friend i really have nothing at all #i don’t want to die. i have no plans on doing that sort of thing anytime soon— don’t misunderstand me #i just wholeheartedly believe i don’t deserve to be here anymore not because i’m not loved. i just can’t stand myself and my teenage years- #-feel so long and i'm so fragile how much longer do i have to tolerate. i'm contributing nothing. why should my family have to feed and- #-clothe a burden like me who provides nothing. why should my friends care for someone like me. i’m not really that funny or sweet or great- #-with advice giving or pretty or helpful in any way. why is it that life is genuinely easier for others. what did i do? what can i do? #how much longer must i tolerate this? would you believe me if i said i really did try to change my mindset this time? #i have no one in real life to talk to. therapists are pricey and i don’t think mine was helping me in any way anyways. she was nice though #so every night i sleep hoping i wake up somewhere else. somewhere where i'm happier and i can live all my silly fantasies where i'm a fun- #-and lovely person who has everything she wants and nothing goes wrong ever!! #how much longer must i hang onto the little things. i’m in such an exruciating amount of pain that i want to kill myself without dying? lol #everyone repeats the same stuff. get bit #i can't rely on the joy of having coffee every morning or persevere for the sake of seeing cute cats on insta. nothing will ease the burden

[foul-milk]

my main issue with merc rn isn't even that they aren't super fast or perfect or anything like that. they made a mistake in development and that's ok, bcs everyone makes mistakes and there is no perfect team. but the key to success is that after you make a mistake you find the issue and fix it. this is what they seem to be unable to do... the ongoing theme since last season has been confusion regarding their issues. they can't seem to figure out what's wrong. even from the outside, you can tell they are very uncertain about everything regarding the car. this is what makes me worry for this team the most, because if they can't even figure out where the issues lie, how are they expecting to fix them?

#f1 #mercedes amg f1 #british gp 2023 #sorry for the rant #i've just honestly lost hope for this team #i don't see them coming back to theur winning ways anytime soon #maybe after the 2026 reg changes #but even then i'm not sure

[elegyofthemoon]

i was going to put "we can do this together!!" but then i realized i would be quoting silas

#my icons not enough i need to BE silas #i Am very happy though about the silas icon just so people can perceive me as silas :) thats all i need #OR WELL I KINDA HOPE PEOPLE PERCEIVE ME AS SILAS LMAOOO #snow speaks #im probably not changing it anytime soon after this exam (tomorrow) is over LKAJDSF #look its too adorable. how else am i gonna support my friends in their time of need aside from #'i got you bro' silas 🤧

[seromelo-tonin]

I've been super quiet here on Tumblr and to just reassure whoever reads this I am fine and actually very good.

To sum up what I've been up to is this:

I have just been falling very, very, VERY deep into the Vtuber hole for a long time now and I just finished watching the new outfit reveals for Luxiem and I just have to get all my fangirl excitement out of my system for a bit lol.

I've been following Ninisanji JP/EN, some Vshojo, Indie Vtubers, and starting to look at some Hololivers- I'm just, REALLY into the community and all the Vtubers themselves are just so amazing all in their own unique ways, they are very fun to watch and interact with and they are also very inspiring.

I do miss interacting more on Tumblr again bc I've made and met so many wonderful people and friends on here and I wish to interact with them again bc I really miss them and tbh I feel bad bc I feel like I've been kinda neglectful.

Also, another thing, I have been trying to improve my drawing skills. I've been getting into the habit of using way bigger canvas sizes, playing with brush settings for lineart, and ESPECIALLY looking up/experimenting on different coloring and shading techniques to further improve my art. I am getting the drive to improve and evolve my style to however far I can take it to feel more and more satisfied with the end results- to a point where I can finish a piece and look at it and say "I'm proud of this."

BECAUSE of this, though, I have been thinking of cutting back on what drawings I'd wanna post here on Tumblr. I am still down with drawing some fanart and self ship art here and there from time to time, but I am also wanting to sort of rebrand myself on other platforms so any bigger works, like full on illustrations and such I will only post on my new brand platform elsewhere.

On one last note- specifically on this rebranding I mentioned, I will be going to change my username later on at some point to kinda separate so I can signy works with my new brand name instead and not my username here anymore. Idk when exactly bc I am still thinking of what to change it to, but worry not to whoever has already known me I will still keep my bio the exact same so you can still just call me by my nickname! (If anything I'll just change the username to probably something simple)

Anyways, I'm not gonna be gone for too long now, after I work out some final things I will be back to being more active here on Tumblr while working on all my new stuff on other places.

See y'all soon! ❤️

#i speak #vtubers #my thoughts #This is hole I can honestly say I couldn't have been happier to have fallen into #I am literally having the best time of my life watching all these guys and I don't wanna stop anytime soon #I've been having these ideas and inspiration for a while now too #so doing these changes feels so great for me #like I'm finally having something to drive to #to fullfill just for myself bc it's what I really want to accomplish #I'm excited but also a tad nervous as I hope I can reach my goals #but I don't plan on leaving this site anytime soon #if at all #I do genuinely love it here #and all the wonderful people I'veet and befriended

[silveredcircuitry]

OC ask - 50, please and thank you!

50. Give me the good ol’ OC talk here. Talk about anything you want

Have some assorted Starship Legitimacy worldbuilding! not all that much of it is the ship or crew but I'm making this whole universe up so it counts as an OC right

The Starship Legitimacy itself is very haunted. It is haunted in the sense that there is at least one ghost there. It's haunted in the sense that Events have Occurred (good? bad? weird? It doesn't quite matter) and now the memories and stories hang around the ship. It is also haunted in the way that buildings are called haunted when there's a gas leak or poisonous mold in the walls or something.

Ghosts (and to a lesser degree some other supernatural beings) are honestly a lot more entwined with those other types of "hauntings" than you'd necessarily think. The idea of their presence and influence always seems to predate any real proof or truly inexplicable phenomena.

Speaking of supernatural phenomena... People can do all sorts of weird stuff with the right training (and some luck), including things that would get called magic even if the official name for them was something else. This does include robots and other such created beings.

Sadly artificial beings getting supernatural powers is frequently A Problem for everyone involved rather than especially helpful. Something about gaining such powers alters how the user's mind works in a way that is basically unnoticeable (aside from. having magic powers now) for most organic beings, but when your mind started out as a nice neat computer program it messes things up. Almost never in the direction of personality changes, though. Mostly, it means it's an absolute pain to back any part of yourself up, or fix any errors that may pop up. And so much as new or changed pieces of hardware to run said code on might end up making your powers stop working :(. It's not the worst thing to deal with, but considering how much you may need to practice before getting anything useful out of it, it's kind of a nuisance to get magic as an AI.

There's also a... worse thing that can happen to AI with supernatural powers.

See, while the attributes that go into one's magic power and chance of developing it are complicated and nonlinear and not very well understood, there are certain things that, in abundance, are likely to result in a lot of power. These things happen to include the sort of intelligence that can be really really useful in an AI.

As a result, when an AI's intelligence is improved, by giving it more processing power, more memory storage, more effective code, the chance that it will gain magic increases, and the power it will have should it gain magic increases at an even greater rate. Past a certain point, the potential power will outstrip any ability the AI may have to control it properly, and it just keeps on going. It keeps on going to the point that if the AI ever gained magic, it would be an instant and horrific disaster, and the chances of it gaining magic without even trying go up and up...

Long story short you can't make a computer too smart, because it will become a wizard and unintentionally blow itself up. And also probably destroy the whole planet and maybe the star system and fill the lungs of everyone involved who somehow escaped with molten glass and offbrand legos or some fucking thing.

There might be ways to make this not happen, but the consequences of failure make it kind of a Bad Idea.

#this took a Long Time but I hope you enjoy :D #lore #queries #ask game #The Starship Legitimacy #sil.txt #some of these things might change a lil bit #also the Issues with the ship are mostly under control and unlikely to hurt the crew too badly anytime soon. #some people think otherwise but I just want to clarify they generally aren't getting poisoned by mold the entire time they're aboard

[theenderwalker]

i AM going to explode btw

#processing this all is taking a lot out of me #i kinda ignored the impact of it yesterday and got hit by it like a fucking train tonight #i’ve been cryin off and on for like 4 hours now. talked to my sibling abt it #talked to my mom abt it #talked to some friends abt it #it isn’t getting any easier #but i love u all #and even if the content of this blog does change i’m not planning on going anywhere anytime soon #i’ve made a couple realizations that r makinf this whole thing rlly hard to navigate emotionally #abt the nature of my interest in the dsmp and what i’ve invested in it #and i’m working through it #its simultaneously so far removed from me #and so very very personal #so. yeah. #idk i’m just putting thoughts out there into the ether rn #hope u all are well #<3 sending my love

[kitsune528]

I'm thinking of changing my username but I'm unsure, I have an idea of what to change it to but I've had this one for literal decades I use it for everything (Not that I'd be changing my username identity anywhere else because this is the only social media I have outside facebook now) I've become weirdly attached to it

#Not that it's necessarily an Identity so to speak #like it's just a username I've always had because it's almost guaranteed to be free #also the pain of hoping that the people that do interact with my posts will recognize me #though I'm not changing my Icon #at least not anytime soon

[weaselle]

it was too much i had to make my own post

line cook here. ACCURATE

if you don't get the hate, here's what you don't understand.

it takes up to 2 hours to close down the kitchen.

The last 60-90 minutes before closing time you do almost no cooking because the restaurant doesn't have many people in it and you've already cooked most of their diners.

So if someone walks in during, like, the last hour, the cook is in the middle of an industrial deep clean of the kitchen.

(these numbers can vary quite a bit from place to place but i have worked several restaurants with these actual times and the concept remains the same)

Say the place closes at 10. If you wait til the restaurant is already closed to start all your cleaning duties, you'll be there until at least midnight.

More than that your boss knows that on an average night you can start your clean up as soon as the last rush ends and get out of there around 10:45, even 10:15 on a slow night if you get lucky. That means there are plenty of restaurants where if you do take until midnight the manager is going to come up to you at some point that week and ask you what went wrong that night, and you'd better have an answer.

So this example restaurant closes at 10 pm. The dinner rush ends around 8:30, and shortly after that the cook is going to start getting every single dish possible over to the dishwasher because the dishwasher always gets hit hard and late, and the machine runs for 2 full minutes and only holds so many dishes, so the way that works out is if you wait an extra 30 minutes to give the dishwasher all your stuff it can mean adding like 60 minutes to the end of his shift. And you're gonna KEEP finding shit to send to the dishpit right up until you leave probably.

all these little square and rectangle containers in this cold table have to be pulled out and changed over into new containers, replaced by new full ones, or in some cases filled from larger containers in the back, which can result in even more empty containers to send to the dishwasher.

while it's all pulled apart to do this, you have to clean up all the spilled food and sauce and juices and stuff from the joints and ledges and shelves and drip trays

Once you get your line changed over in this way, and fully stocked, anytime someone orders something that makes use of a bunch of that stuff, you have to restock and re-clean it some. It might already be covered in plastic. Some of it might already be stuck in the back to make room to take apart your cutting board counter to clean. To cook a dish isn't TOO much of a problem at this point, but you're really hoping for zero orders because you still have so much other cleaning to do.

Meanwhile the salad bar and appetizer section and server station and everybody are all doing the same thing. Even the bartenders are stocking olives and lemons and sending back whisks and stir spoons and shakers and empty 4quart storage containers that used to hold the back-up lemons and olives and things. Every section is dumping their must-be-cleaneds to the dishpit as fast as possible because early and fast is the only thing they can do to to help that dishpit not absolutely drown into overtime.

The poor dishwasher is always the last to clock out, soaking wet and exhausted.

Around this time you probably scrub the flat top, which has turned black from cooked on grease and is still about 500 degrees. Line cooks are divided in opinion on water-based or oil based cleaning methods for this, but they all involve scrubbing with (usually) a brick of pumice stone using every ounce of your strength while you try not to burn yourself

you scrub it from fully blackened to gleaming silver and now if somebody orders something that needs the flat top to cook, you can either fuck up your cleaning job or fake it in a couple frying pans and pass that tiny fuck you down to your dishwasher (who usually understands, especially if you help them take the garbage out or clean your own floor drain later)

If there's deep fried stuff on the menu then the fryers have to be cleaned out, which includes straining the oil out into enormous and super-heavy pots full of oil so hot that if you spill on yourself then it's probably a hospital visit and if you slip and fall face first into it it'll be the last thing you ever do.

Then you gotta scrub out the fryer. Like you gotta take the (hot) screen out and reach your arm down into the weird rounded pipes and curved areas (so hot, burn you if you brush against them hot) and scrub off whatever is down there

Depending on your kitchen you might have to do up to four of these. Then you'll have to pour the (dangerously hot) oil back in

oh, and if you didn't dry the pipes and get ALL the water out of the trap and tank?

water reacts with hot oil in a sort of mentos and coke way that can send a tidal wave of oil past the open flame of the pilot light ...HUGE dangerous mess and/or burn down the kitchen if the oil lights up.

Unless! If the oil has been used too hard and needs to be changed, it's time to carry those open topped super heavy pots full of will-kill-you-hot oil and dump them in the barrel outside by the dumpsters so you can put room temp fresh oil in the fryers. whew!

The clean up is not just some light wiping down that can be easily interrupted, is what i'm saying.

You might have to do some kind of walk-in duty (moving around 50lb cases of lettuce and 50lb bags of onions to get to the stacks of five gallon buckets full of salad dressings and sauces to move so you can reach the giant metal pots and bus tubs full of prep and get it all organized and make sure it's all labeled and i have to stop now i'm having flashbacks)

THE POINT IS

by 15 or however many minutes to close, the line cook is doing an intense deep clean and probably has the whole stove taken apart to detail.

For some industrial stoves this means lifting off large cast iron plates that weigh like 20 lbs each and are still quite hot. Whatever metal burners are on there, you gotta take off and clean, you can see here the lines that indicate the large thick cast iron rectangles that sit on top of the burners to allow heavy pots to rest on. Those five (each has one front burner hole and one back burner hole, see?) have to be lifted off and cleaned with soap and a wire brush usually, and then the underneath area also has to be cleaned because a lot of shit falls through the burner holes on a busy night.

if you didn't do it when you did the flat top you have to do the grease trap (which can be like a full five minutes and is always disgusting).. You gotta clean out all the little gas jets in each burner with a wire or something so the burners all flame evenly, and sometimes you have to remove some of the natural gas piping that connects the burners to access where you have to clean.

you gotta clean out the bottom of the oven and the wire racks, and, oh gods, you gotta take down the filter vents from the hood fans above the stove.

See all the lined parts along the top of the wall?

those are hood vents, and as they pull air up they also pull a lot of grease and they have to be taken down and cleaned, then you gotta climb up there and scrub where they go before you put them back...

And then there's the mopping and floor drains and...

Anyway, that's what the line cook is doing when you walk in fifteen minutes before closing and order something that needs to be cooked on that stove. They are doing an entire industrial cleaning of a professional kitchen.

In some restaurants maybe one or two of these jobs will be every other night or even only twice a week, but in many, possibly most kitchens, ALL of these things happen EVERY night. You don't want to leave any food mess that might attract insects or rodents for one thing, so a really good kitchen is as close to brand new as you can get it every night.

IF YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO ORDER SOMETHING ANYWAY, HERE IS WHAT TO DO

open with an apology and ask the server to go ask what the cook would prefer you to order.

Any good server will already know what the cook is hoping for and what will make their line cook go into the walk in and scream. If it's significantly less than an hour to close and they say some variant of "oh anything is fine" they are either telling the lie their boss wants them to say, or they actually do not know what their line cook wants, and you can either use human connection and a conspiratorial just-between-us tone to get them to drop the customer-is-always-right act, or get them to actually go ask the cook.

It might be as specific as "the lasagna is easiest on the kitchen" or it might be a simple guideline like "nothing that requires the flat top" or "any of the sautés are easy" but a good line cook will probably have a system for if they have to make a couple of the most popular items after they start their close, so the answer is likely to include something most people like and you should be good to order that.

but for the love of all that's holy, please only do so at great need. Leave that last 30-60 minutes to the truly desperate and the crew's duties.

#long post #sorry #i just have a lot of DO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND feelings left over from all my years in restaurants #restaurants #line cook #service industry