#rather than goods and services

[beaft]

if i think about job hunting too much i get so angry that my face blows up and goes bright red like a person in a cartoon. so i try not to

#no role should require you to write multiple mini essays about 'a time i exhibited good customer service' #(or whatever) #entry level jobs should not require 3 years of experience. #recruiters should email you after an interview to let you know if you got rejected or not. #you shouldn't have to change your cv for every job you apply to. #you should not have to spend over an hour writing an application for a minimum wage job. #your company should compensate you for the cost of your commute #interviews should be judged based on your skillset rather than your ability to answer cryptic questions in a socially acceptable way #ahhhhhhhhh. ahhh ahh ahhhhh

[superanimepirate]

We got new Senshi Panty Shots

But at what cost?

#rip iconic marcille moment #idk i feel kinda annoyed at male fan service at the expense of female iconic moments and actually good female fanservice #i mean i don't know if it was actually a conscious choice but still #idk how to articulate it #sorry i'd rather have marcille run her hands through her hair while covered with blood than dwarf bulge shots #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #delicious in dungeon episode 12 #marcille donato

[agnesandhilda]

I genuinely can't imagine what blue lock would be like if any goalies besides gagamaru were allowed to be good at their jobs

#bolo liveblogs #we love to make fun of the blue lock men for being awful which is true but the unnamed human goalies aren't any better #which is in service of bllk having a more exciting narrative (it's cooler if the strikers are successful because of their own talent #rather than failing because *other* people are good players. unless we're supposed to care about those defensive players #and we're only really meant to care about like lorenzo aiku and gagamaru and all the defenders w/no character development suck) #but I think it would be funny if the random no name no backstory goalie of the week deflected a shot from like. rin or whoever. #make someone whose shots have never been successfully deflected by a *goalie* (the number of saves these forwards with NO training in #defense are making is unreasonable unrealistic and frankly disrespectful to defensive roles) #in canon miss once. make him seethe.

[d20owlbear]

Angel Cupcakes and Baskerville Corso

"Chiffon!" Aziraphale shouted, worried up to his ears and chasing after the cream-colored Tibetan Spaniel dragging her sparkling leash behind her. She pranced ahead just barely out of reach underneath the feet of unwatchfull by-passers.

She didn't bark back at him, but she did look over her shoulder at him once or twice, as if to ask what the problem was, only to ignore all his recall commands and wind his anxiety up higher and higher as she got closer to the street's crossing corner. He had no idea just what had gotten into her these days and he felt just about ready to cry about it!

Not just a week ago, she'd gone missing for hours on end only to show back up wet and slimy and covered in grass stains looking like she'd had a grand ol' time only seconds before he'd been about to call Madame Tracy in a worked up fit. Then, nearly every day this week she'd disappear from his bookstore at some point for thirty minutes here, an hour or so there, only to come back fit as a fiddle and disgustingly wet.

"Chiffon, you stop right there missy!" Aziraphale shouted again, gearing himself up for a final sprint, terrified she'd try to cross the street. It wasn't overly busy, but cars still occasionally sped through and they certainly weren't watching for little dogs all the way out here in Soho!

"No you don't, cupcake." An alluringly hoarse voice resonated in Aziraphale's head as someone all dressed in black from head to toe scooped up his dear little Chiffon like a seasoned pro. She didn't even bark, the traitor!

"Excus-" Aziraphale wheezed, coming to an abrupt stop in front of the absolutely oppressive-looking creature the man had at his side that Aziraphale hesitated to call a dog at all. It looked like the sort of dog a man who had enemies might have, though one that didn't want to admit it by getting a more classically intimidating rottweiler or doberman...

"Excuse me... sir." He forced out at last, standing straight and pulling down his vest to tidy his appearance as best he could, as if the man hadn't clear as day seen him huffing and puffing up the street with the way his eyebrow went up past the rims of those dark-as-night sunglasses.

"Anything you like, angel." The man replied, leaning his hip into the creat- the dog as his side– Aziraphale noticed the dog leaned back and nudged the man's free hand sloppily until it rest on the dog's head, very delicately petting its face and head. The slightest tremor Aziraphale'd not noticed before stopped the moment the dog did so. He was so fascinated by the interaction he'd almost not realized what the man himself had said.

"I- wh- you-" At that moment, Chiffon chose that point to wag her traitor little tail and bark right in the man's face, making his easy grin (which Aziraphale secretly quite liked the look of) freeze a little. But then the man stiffly held out the small, fluffy dog to Aziraphale and his smile returned to normal in the blink of an eye, so it was almost like he'd imagined it.

"Cupcake's yours, right?" He grinned wider and kneeled down to throw a lazy arm around the beast beside him as if they were the best mates in the world. "She's been popping up in my shop down the street, you know, took a liking to Baskerville over here somehow."

Aziraphale quickly took Chiffon back into his arms and curled her into the biggest hug right up against his neck so he could half-bury his face in her little lion's mane ruff. "Yes, thank- thank you so much, I was so worried!"

The man's smile widened again and he braced a hand on one knee to leverage himself up, and the dog- Baskerville (what a delightful name, Aziraphale was far too charmed already by this mysterious man dressed all in black with a welcoming smile and a voice like melted chocolate even before he found out his naming sense was on point) stood very close and very still as if he were bracing for the man as well in the maneuver.

"My name's Crowley," he said, and produced a simple little business card out of nowhere between two of his fingers and handed it over to Aziraphale. His cheeks had the gall to blush about it, he would have words with them later about embarrassing him in front of fine gentlemen and their gentle beasts of dogs. "You can find me in the café down the street's called Edine." Except when he said it, it sounded a lot like Eden...

" 'S dog-friendly, of course. We make dog-safe foods and drink too, if you'd like to bring Cupcake." Crowley continued, rambling a little now, one of his hands came up to gesticulate and his voice wavered a little on the last line. Baskerville flopped Crowley's hand onto his head again, and Crowley took a deep, subtle breath, smiling again. "This guy's the mascot, helps takes orders, though he sleeps on the job plenty. Awful employee really."

"I'm sure." Aziraphale smiled gently, eyes sparkling. "I'm Aziraphale, Aziraphale Fell. I run the bookstore down that-a-ways... and this is Chiffon." Aziraphale bounced his arms and Chiffon panted happily with a doggy grin for good measure. "We'd love to come by. How late are you open 'till?"

"I dunno, how late're you gonna come?" Crowley practically tripped over his words and Aziraphale laughed at himself for thinking he was suave and mysterious rather than delightfully adorable and entirely too endearing for Aziraphale's own good, oh he could already feel that weightless feeling at the bottom of his stomach, like he'd just stepped off the edge of a cloud and he was 0.5 seconds from free fall.

"Is 7 alright?"

"7's great." Crowley grinned, toothy and with an endearing little snaggle-tooth right at the edge of it that caught his lip just right so it looked a bit like a fang. Oh, there it was. That pesky free fall. He was utterly charmed.

#Good Omens #Good Omens Crowley #Aziraphale #Dogs AU #Crowley has a service dog #he's a Cane Corso #no one at me about this I'm not gonna talk about mastiff-type breed's abilities to train as service dogs #Aziraphale has a dog #A Tibetan Spaniel named Chiffon #Chiffon the Tibbie #Baskerville the Corso #Angel Cupcakes AU #Crowley owns a bakery #also don't at me about dogs and food safety he doesn't go into the kitchen or food prep #don't test me on this #human au #If you yourself have experience with these kinds of service animals #you can DM me about this if I've gotten anything glaringly off #as it's based on close interactions with and love of rather than having my own service dog #my writing

[unopenablebox]

ok i did all my tasks so i may now view my yarn.

yarn :)

it looks kind of orangey in that photo bc it’s nighttime but the yarn is must stash vespa,which will end up looking like a not-quite-rainbow-order pink-and-blue-forward 12-stripe rainbow, as seen here:

i am going to make it into socks :)

#i honestly forgot i got wind service and otoh it's less satisfying to pet in ball rather than skein form and otoh it's definitely kind of ba #d for my wrists to wind yarn balls since i don't own a ball winder. so. ultimately a good choice #the website claims it's inspired by the colors of the original 1946 vespas but i honestly don't think they look alike #however i don't care. because i crave Colors #box opener #knitting #i like this company's yarns and they have good service so i am perfectly willing to advertise my purchases #especially since surely everyone in the knitting blog ecosystem is familiar given that they were famous Yarn Harlot Tour Socks and so on #i cannot possibly actually extend their reach by any amount.

[focsle]

Every day I think of the whaleship owners who thought it was a good idea to name a ship the Good Return II.

#to be fair the good return 1 was willingly disassembled in new bedford rather than having any horrible fate befall her crew #and the good return 2 had a long 30 year service before being retired during the civil war #again not having any horrible fate befall her #BUT STILL IF I DIDN’T KNOW THAT……LIKE HELL I’D SIGN ON WITH A SHIP CALLED THE GOOD RETURN 2

[yourheartinyourmouth]

being the only person you know who is struggling is so fucking humiliating.

we’re talking about getting me a job at a gas station. my friends all make $60K plus.

i have to work in a gas station.

#man so glad i almost died to finish my fucking degree #so glad i worked my ass off for five fucking years so i can watch everyone else succeed and i can be a 36 year old gas station employee #again #when all my friends were going off to college #i was working in a fucking gas station #my friends got to be people and i got to be a fucking gas station employee #my friends all get to be treated with respect at work #i get to work in retail #yep going into debt so deeply i’ll probably never be able to pay it off was worth it #all so i can do fucking minimum wage menial labor. #great. #fantastic. #love that for me. #didn’t make me radically suicidal the first time around nah #everyone else gets to succeed #while i only ever get to fail in the shittiest and most humiliating way possible #cool cool cool #i’m going to bite my fucking wrists open all over the first customer who talks to me #i would legitimately rather be dead than have to work in customer service #it’s so fucking degrading. no one thinks you’re a person. no one cares. #minimum wage 36 year old fuck up loser #that’s me #awesome great cool awesome #everyone else gets a normal happy life & i get nothing #because i don’t know #something is missing in me #i am woefully inadequate to the task #hey what’s a good job for stupid idiot fuck up morons who can’t do anything & wasted 5 years & 70 thousand fucking dollars #on a fucking sheet of paper #that doesn’t even list my fucking degree

[dionysus-complex]

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#mysterious vision issues are acting up to the point that it's getting difficult for me to look at screens #which is a problem given that i have to finish this dissertation prospectus very soon so i need to get back to the optometrist #b/c my new glasses that i got that are supposed to help with eye strain seem to make my vision blurrier rather than clearer #but also our car's check engine light came on this weekend and we spent today going back and forth to the mechanic and it's gonna be $$$ #very grateful to the good folks at [redacted auto service dept] for getting us in today though #but i missed [major classical scholar]'s talk at my university this evening because we needed to get said car trouble resolved #and i'm not especially upset about missing the talk but it's just like when it rains it pours y'know #i need life to be a little less insistent

[pebblezone]

Living life yay huzzah yay

#a #I have beef with my school. am I happy here? absolutely. do I think we are beyond lame for not having an actual guy? 100% #letters don’t count!!!!!!!! having a capital letter for your school doesn’t count!!!!!!!!!! #like it’s not even a complete absence of a team no just like a silly little physical guy than runs across the field #and can be all cute on stuff on shirts and be stuffed animals it’s the marketing potential they’re missing out on #though I guess I’d rather have no physical dude than one which sucks complete ass I’m talking about pen state fuck that guy #I need to watch the gnomes again wait oh my fucking god I was thinking like damn I did the gnomeo juliet ace attorney moment #but my brain is knee deep in hellsing so idk how to connect them but bruh every piece of media has some form of rivals #I’m not emotionally invested in andercard but the idea of Catholic and Protestant gnomes is really funny #and they’re already British!! lovely!!! at some point in college I need to use gnomes for a grade I can’t let that be a high school only bit #did you know that gnomeo and Juliet is technically owned by Disney? add that to your marvel cinematic universe #oh gnomeo and Juliet poster we’re really in it now #did you know that the version of hello hello that’s in the movie featuring lady Gaga is not on streaming services? they take lady Gaga out #it’s really unfortunate the echos and duet aspect make the song it’s not just one or the other it’s Two Gnomes!! #have two exam grades back that I have not looked at out of fear #either they’ll be bad and I’ll watch hellsing to make myself feel better Or they’ll be good and I’ll watch hellsing as a reward #unrelated but it looks like a gutter on the other side of my dorm got busted and I’m trying to figure out if it’s always been like that #maybe it has and I’m not a gutter glorifier like I thought I was…. rip observational skills #I have a group project I have to work on and it’s evil I do not enjoy the class and it’s not very lgbt slay girlboss of me #but god dammit I am not filling out a fucking gender unicorn for your class that’s between me and my tumblr drafts from 2019 #it gets a credit out of the way and I never have to take it again I am so strong #man what does it say about society that I’m more excited about Econ than wgs (it says nothing the Econ professor is just goofy and fun) #(also he does more than read off of slides and show those like buzzfeed social experiments) #but none of that is important since next week is when things get fucked and I’ll end up with more free time! yay strikes!! #update: made it back from project zone those fuckers held me hostage using social norms #it’s okay though I’m sooo strong and brave #talkingcore

[im-smart-i-swear]

How about Eenek's family for blorbo meme? If it is ok

hiii of course its ok!! had a lot of fun making these<3

thanks for the ask bestie<33

#ask #my funky guys #this family has. so so many problems #eeneks parents propably met during military service and both miracoulisly survived being cannon fodder #theyve been through hell together and bc of that became very close (and pretty unhealthily codependent) #and what else were they supposed to do rather than stay together forever??and have children??? thats the only logical conlusion here ofc #she is. a very interesting character i think. i havent really thought about her much yet but GOD there was so much Wrong with this woman #she is a prime example of what the empire did to people and how it manipulated them into thinking theyre superior than everyone else #she killed innocent people and she didnt care. she followed her orders mindlessly. but every horrible thing she did- she did out of her own #free will. yes this is how she was raised and forced to be but that doesnt change the fact she DID those things. #before she died she managed to instill a lot of that in zora too #wnich at first glance seems weird bc she is a member of the blades of maromra!! shes one of the Good Guys!!! #but the way she views herself and what she does are still very reminiscent of her mother in a way. she sacraficed everything for #the marmoras and doesnt feel guilty for leaving her family bc that was The Right Thing To Do #and thus there are no negative consequences to her actions!! she had to leave them to become the perfect solider and hero- #ready to sacrafice everything for the cause #so noble #so brave #so young and naiive. #suffering means youre doing it right. suffering means your sacrafice meant something and that you will be rewarded. #after all #every hero has to suffer. #i think zora thinks eenek is so immature. they cling to their childhood and want everything to be simple! thats so childish and stupid! #she is not like them. she knows how hard life is. she suffered more than them. more than her father. they wouldnt understand her. #she can do this all by herself.

[littlenimart]

MGS Print Interest Check

NOT JUST A SNAKE, A CONSTRICTOR

TIL WE MEET AGAIN

#1 CRUSH

if it's more than one that you'd be interested in feel free to vote for one and leave the other in replies/tags!

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i've gotten messages recently regarding having prints made of some MGS pieces and wanted to do a check on which ones I should proceed to ready for print!

#mgs fanart #mgs #bosselot #bbkaz #metal gear solid #poll #if you take the time to answer this THANK YOU! also feel free to rb #i have prints made in batches and ship them myself rather than a print on demand service so it's good to know where to focus my effort/mone

[moondoposting]

just back from rereading moon knight 2021 and i’ve decided if my good friend mr mackay ever leaves the series i will simply delete my blog

#like bro you can just tell he put so much thought into the character #evolving him both as a person in world and also as a character with a comic book legacy #there’s themes bitch #there’s plot #the whole way he shows how marc works on ‘it’s not who you are. it’s what you do.’ #with reese being a vampire (involuntarily) #and soldier being ex-hydra (voluntarily) #bro i’m i’m i’m #even more obvious stuff like him (initially) beating hunters moon cause he ‘earned’ his skills rather than having them gifted to him #ALL THE SHIT WITH HOW HE FEELS LIKE THE WORLD DOESNT NEED MARC SPECTOR #BUT TIGRA STILL CALLING HIM MARC #mr mackay thank you for your service #like not everything is perfect but oh man. it’s so good #moon knight #moon knight comics

[toytulini]

wish the little listicles and articles reccomending google alternatives didnt like, mention ios. like no offense but do you think i dont know what an iphone is. you think im looking into google alternatives but i dont know that apple exists? you really think that? if i was going to buy a fucking apple product id already be doing that?

#toy txt post #I think id rather try to brute force my brain to learn fuckinf. idk. coding shit than fuck w apple #idc they say theyre better about privacy lol i dont trust them either #also like lol better about privacy but they out here pioneering in the field of planned obsolescence and im not fucking with that OS sorry #i simply cannot #idk its just like. the article be like 5 NON GOOGLE GPS OPTIONS and i get all excited and its loke heres 4 kind of mediocre pain in the ass #obscure things you can try that require some sort of technical skill to install and have less convenient updated features than google. and #also apple maps. sorry have you heard about The Iphone(tm)? just making sure youre aware of one of the biggest non google tech companies #in case you somehow missed it?? #like. sorry. what?? #anyway. i really hope this goes without saying but this is Not the post for you to rave about How Cool Apple Is and How Much You Love Your #Apple Products and Why I Should Switch To Apple! good for you glad you like your shit make your own post and fuck off! #argh #anyway. currently thinkjng about l #buying another s7 off amazon and 1) making sure it works w my sim card before i do anything 2) fucking around and finding out #w one of those alternative OSs like uhhhh iodé or whatever on either the new s7 OR. my old one. idk. want to see if i can do it and make it #work. im sure itll be a huge pain in the ass and ill freak out and give up partway through or smth #need to look into how that interacts w like? my ohine service if at all? #also want to look into uhhh #trying to reinstall old versions of the samsung camera and gallery/photo editor apps on my newer device maybe just to see if i can pull it #off and have like a fully updated OS without switching to a camera i hate #and it would be cool to have whatever version of the photo editor pro i have on my s7 on my other devices cos it lets me do things i cant do #on these

[faggottomcruise]

Saturday food service mood board

#this implies i am not the zen master . but thats ok #food service #ok to rb #to be honest several people at work have noted my particular calm under pressure #which is true. i simply do not care enough to get mad or anxious at work #to care about my work would take a level of energy i am already spending on doing the work #i would rather my work be good but i have no emotional investment in it than #have an emotional investment in it and have my work just be okay #however #work is pissing me off today 👍 they do not want to find the deep seeded anger I feel 👍 <- guy with mood disorder

[spill-that-anxietea]

Fuck the post-binge spiral is hitting so hard rn. I am drowning lmao

#and by binge I mean tv binge #I don’t drink so don’t worry about that #I’m just done with Peaky Blinders and it was so good that I no longer know what to do with myself #like genuinely #im walking through a thick fog #sometimes I feel like the only time im ever really happy is when I disappear into a story #me #who I am and the problems that I face #none of that matters when im consuming media #like the only problems that matter are the ones that the characters are facing #because I would rather face earth shattering dilemmas #than go back to work in my stupid fucking customer service job #and go to my stupid fucking college #I feel like a wild animal trapped in a cage #I am restless and angry and sad and empty #and I just want #more #of what? I don’t know #anyway #random

[ceramicdove]

Yes I’ve been ia but I will talk to myself for no reason now ♡

I am very fascinated by the niche online phenomenon of people getting deep into fandom spaces and/or art/writing communities and becoming increasingly more anti-criticism as a result. I think it’s an interesting example of humanity’s engagement with art and community, and I observe it like a national geographic narrator.

and yes I believe art and creation is a birthright and, more radically, that the existence of bad or embarrassing art holds meaning (for some people’s paths in life it may be downright crucial) because one of the most fundamental acts of care you can offer yourself is accepting who you are even when you are perceived as small and vulnerable and shameful. and art that conveys what you are is one of the things that can easily make you feel small and vulnerable and shameful.

simultaneously, I believe the “if you have nothing nice to say don’t say it at all” mindset in relation to art is a silent killer. it sounds nice in theory to have a space where everyone is #loved and #awesome all the time and all art is good. but it starts to get weird (if not downright leaning into anti-intellectualist tendencies) when people propagate things like You should never say anything bad to an artist ever or else you are an evil hater. the more you paint criticism as an inherently bad act, the more you build a mental hole where you stagnate until your brain grows mold. you can’t “art your subjective” out of any situation that challenges you to think in new, uncomfortable, or nuanced ways.

this is why I laugh a little bit at fandom parent fanfiction bloggers who are always vagueposting about how tortured disney+ a-oh-three fanfiction authors are because they saw some innocuous post that stated “I don’t like it when stories have a lot of grammar errors, it makes reading difficult” and decided that this was the #1 Most Evil Post Of The Day because how dare anyone criticise artists online?

having support networks that will build you up is crucial but so is learning how to digest criticism. trying to escape that will either lead you to deluding yourself and going off the rails or to being broken in half mentally. it is crucial to learn how to cope.

#this is also in part why I am drawn to mentor figures that are most curt and perceived as a little bit insane/elitist #I'd rather have my feelings hurt than stagnate in nice-sounding lip service #it also forces you to use your brain and differentiate bad advice from good advice and bad ideology from good ideology #I love my nice teachers and mentor figures but the ones that are more jaded and direct have taught me so much more #through discomfort and growing pains #they both play their roles #sharpness has broken me down and helped me get back up anew. kindness has sustained me. both crucial.