#setting the standards low

[theborzoiarebackintown]

SUSPICIOUS

#dogblr #petblr #dog #borzoi #sighthound #margo #charlie #can I also point out #how Margo is holding her tail #is a very normal and regular borzoi tail set #anyone familiar with dog language but not borzoi anatomy/structure #may think it’s a tucked tail and she’s nervous or uncomfortable #but that is absolutely her normal and CORRECT borzoi tail #per the standard tails are to be long and low set #which makes for a tucked tail look when held naturally

[fictionadventurer]

The worst part about reading in a genre where you have low expectations (in this case, Christian historical fiction) is that when a book impresses you, you have no idea if it's actually good or if you're just overly impressed because it was a fraction of a degree better than the usual garbage.

#basically lately anytime i read a christian fiction book that isn't romance-based i find myself surprised by the quality #i do think that some christian publishers are getting better #and trying to tell stories that dig deeper into real faith and messy issues #instead of making only vapid squeaky clean prayer-filled tropefests #but i'm not sure *how much* better #because anything above the low bar feels like great literature #the most recent is 'in a far-off land' by stephanie landsem #and let me tell you setting the prodigal son in 1930s hollywood is a genius concept #i have some issues with the history and the mystery #but the characters! #it has been a long time since i cried this hard over a book #several chapters of solid waterworks #(and i also have the issue of figuring out if it's actually that moving or if i'm just hormonal/sleep-deprived) #i keep thinking about this book but also i worry about recommending because what if it's actually terrible by normal book standards? #(also the author DOES NOT understand the seal of confession and i was SHOCKED to find that she's actually catholic) #but also looking at the reviews makes it clear that if most of christian fiction is vapid garbage it's these reviewers' fault #here you have something that's digging into sin and darkness and justice and mercy and these people are just #'how can it call itself christian fiction if it only mentions god at the end?' #are we reading the same book this WHOLE THING is about god! and humanity and our fallen nature and how this breaks relationships! #your pearl-clutching anytime someone tries to get even a tiny bit realistic is destroying this genre #i'm gonna run out of tags so i'll stop now

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

well after 2 years...only like 2 more hours to finish up some last scenes and an edit 👀🥳

#the first time divorcees club #tftdc ch 8 #ch 8 (june) has been split into two parts though #hence the slightly lower than usual wc #and i know that 19k is a ridiculous number to call 'low' but somehow i've set a 30k standard for myself with these chapters lol #feeling lots of terror and excitement rn its been SO LONG

[ghostfacd]

I hate when writers who’ve already made their character cheat in their writing and then the characters have a talk and everything goes back to normal as if they literally ?? didn’t ?? cheat ?? like hello

#it’s fictional but it’s like dude 😭 #setting low standards here. #like yea so what if he killed ur family and cheated on u 5 times #he apologized 😽😽

[deesi-academia]

Kaam aisa karo ki chaar kya koi bhi kabhi tumhe kuch kaam na de

#set the standard LOW #desiblr #desi #chaotic academia #humor #memes #desi culture #desi academia #desi humor #desi memes

[saetoru]

ppl who consider 30s to be old are wild to me bc realistically most people spend up until roughly 24-26 in college and so you’re basically saying you can rly only live your life for about 4-6 years freely before you’re considered “too old” to enjoy anything. wtf are ppl supposed to do for the next 30 years after that jackass ?? you tell me 🤨 are they supposed to just buy curtains and a new blender and be content with that 🤨

#like #if i’m in my youth rn #by your standards #this is a fucking stupid youth bc i spend every weekend writing papers #y’all are annoying #and i’m tired of seeing this on dash every other day stop telling women in their 30s they’re old !! #this reeks of misogyny too !! #what you’re really implying here is that 30s is the age where people (mainly women) start to show signs of aging physically #or are expected to be mothers by then and sell their souls to be the picture perfect mom and give up all happiness to put their kids first #and there we get into deeper issues with women in society and why we just never win no matter what we do #that or you think adulthood is all about work work work and taxes and bills and to that i say you are setting urself up for misery too #so rly #take ur internalized misogyny or just overall low iq #whichever it is #and let people exist as they please <3

[fourteenthz]

LOVE AND PEACE ON FUCKING PLANET EARTH

#kelly plays ykz #yakuza 0 spoilers #I'm stopping now its like 7am I prefer to believe they are going to have a dinner and plan a trip to Europe and never come back actually #IM SO OBSESSES WITH THEM IT'S MAKING ME SICK IN THE HEAD #i didn't start this game expecting anything other than brother^tm but you know what. IF #they every single one of majima's old boss can say tell this guy has feelings maybe i can too. yeah. YEAH. #OBSESSED SO BAD with chapter 16 first cutscene... he has absolutely NO hesitation in running up to her. #and the second she goes past him he immediately refuses to let her go. #ITS SO INSANE how he has been so lifeless the last chapter and accepting his fate as a pawn for the next one #to show that fucking face he makes while looking at her. ITS SO WEIRD IN A FANTASTIC WAY my man is having too many feelings he can't #she** can't even see it and it KILLS ME bc he is making the world's puppiest eyes at her IM SO AUAAGAHHAHH SLAMMING MY HEAD ON THE TABLE #I NEED THEM. TO BE. SO NORMAL RN. I NEED THEM TO HAVE SUCH NORMAL DINNER RN. #I'm stopping playing bc i'm not sure that's going to happen so enough tears for today but I JUST. REALLY NEED THEM. #TO HAVE DINNER. HOLDING HANDS. AND THAT'S IS. CAN SOMEONE HEAR ME. #she really is like my top3 favorite characters in this damn game I adore this woman to death. #feeling so majima by his sigh in realief as soon as she stopped walking away when she tripped. the way his damn face changes from pained to #'IDEA!' and imediatelly offers to take her out........................... i'm so unwell at this momento. #I thought if they met again I wouldn't be able to trust majima bc he was so set in being a damn pawn in the previous chapter but man..... #the amount of thoughts behind his eye everytime he looked at her. if they end up playing that as him bring in pain #bc he has to win her over im going to kll a guy. there's no way NO WAY U HEARD ME #thry are literally my everything. there is NO way she is going to survive this game and I'm trying sk damn hard to get #used to that idea but it just sucks i love her so much. and thw worst part i have no idea what's up with majima on the other games #is her dying being his villain storie??? his hero redemption? HELL IF I KNOW. IS SHE EVEN DYING FR?? #i truly think they could get away wih shipping her to another country. and it would make sense for majima to insist her to go. #but oh I doubt so hard they are giving me anything but pain with my favorite relationships in this game. i really do. #until then..... lying down in bed.... thoughts abt majima soft expression at her.... abt the weight her voice #carries rn.... abt the way he said 'hey' and she said 'you think I'm emotional because I'm hungry again'..... they. are. so. #the way they dont even give a choice to walk faster when she is accompanying majima. #I have such low standards at this point. if they don't at least hold hands again i will cry. #he doesn't need to guide her around anymore so... u see my vision? him asking for her hand bc he wants to... hello?

[vstheworld]

my advice to young people entering the workforce:

when starting a new job, immediately identify the worst employee. work just slightly harder/smarter than they do.

follow for more tips on surviving late stage capitalism

#text post #late stage capitalism #work stuff #this is genuinely my advice #I know there’s an impulse to not be the dumbass new guy #but if you work SUPER hard right off the bat that becomes the standard they remember and will always hold you to #if you work at like 70% capacity to begin with you set better expectations for yourself #and it gives you room to grow and get better without overtaxing yourself #embrace being the dumbass new guy #the job will never love you back so do what you have to in order to protect your energy #also shoutout to bad employees tbh #setting a low bar for the rest of us to step over #that’s community care babey

[nametoshort]

I know I'm late to the game but society was right, Magnificent Century slaps harder than Hurrem at the smallest provocation (affectionate)

#magnificent century #hurrem sultan #my nene watches loads of Turkish shows and they are bad so that set my standards criminally low #Like I cannot emphasize how bad the shows she watches are #so you can imagine how happy I am that this is really good

[thoroughlyfagged]

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#the fact that just not being an experiment ~ without realising and consenting to it~ makes me ... happy just shows how low my standards #have been set the last years 😂😂 #anywaysss feeling great this spring day unironically

[silvercaptain24]

Gaaaamiiiinngggg

#There’s like #Two good fics #And I’ve already read them #well #correction #two good fics that are up to my (low) standards #(There’s so little for him that the bar has to be set low #I just want my boooyyyy

[todayisafridaynight]

‘you shouldnt play the kiwami games before Y3’ youre wrong but ok. we call that Skill Issue round these parts

#snap chats #FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES THIS IS A JOKE but if it means you play y3 at all then its not #watching someone play the y3 remaster for the first time and i went to the comments cause i wantd to see people dunk my Game Of All Time #and Soundly And Sagely someone was like ‘dont play the kiwamis before three unless you know what to expect’ #well dear commenter i Did Not know what to expect i simply played the games in order #and now all i do is replay y3 #i know i already talked bout it but fr YIKES when it comes to the transition from YK2 to Y3 #they really set my baby up for failure like hes ugly and clunky so he wasnt gettin far anyway but CMON #why couldnt we save the cia plot for AFTER Y4 huh give my child a fighting chance maybe #i only replay y3 so much because im insane and my standards for taste are hell-deep low #speaking of i really do wanna play it with yall sometime.. but that means i need to actually stream.. #ok shoot me down if i dont stresm this week- i wanna try to do an art stream this week #idk when but if its next sunday and i havent done one we can bully me #for now im sleeping and ill prob regret that promise in the morn but ive been puttin it off too long. time to step up etc etc #ok gn

[rainswept]

“how bad can i be” being in half of the aventurine playlists on spotify is making me laugh harder than i should

#typically i don’t like the most common song choices in a lot of character playlists #but i like gambling man and i bet on losing dogs. #aventurine playlists aren’t the best but they’re a breath of fresh air tbh. #blade’s set my standards so low

[butterfly-in-progress]

I was born with a mask

Or I might as well have been

I didn't even know what my own face looked like

As the years went on

I added to it

Layers upon layers caked onto my face

A protective shell

But you were by my side when there were cracks in it

You loved me when the mask was still new and didn't cover much

You were with me for so long, through so much

I thought

That after the long and arduous process

Of hammering at this ceramic

To chip away the layers

And let my face feel the sun

You would rejoice as I did at seeing my face

But instead I have to wonder if you ever loved me in the first place

And chip you off of my heart

#some disjointed thoughts about unmasking autism #and losing friends I've had since childhood #or really... #having to come to terms with the fact that they aren't being good friends to me #that they got weird about me stimming in public #just flapping my arms excitedly #that they got mad at me for not staying for an additional activity due to sensory overwhelm #that when i first told them i was autistic and tried to lighten the mood #one of them said its not appropriate to joke about mental illness and shut me down from discussing it #trying to get me to skip a night of my meds so i could drink with them #becoming really aloof with me when i went semi verbal #messaging my mom behind my back to tell her i needed more therapy because i set boundaries about what i could handle and that was rude #the more confident and happy with myself I've become #the less they've liked me #and its hard to let go of friends youve had for so long #especially when those friends were among the only ones you had for a long time when you felt like you couldnt make friends #but maybe it was the fact that i struggled so much to make friends that my standards were kind of low #this kinda just hit me cause i was thinking about my birthday party #and i realized i didnt want them to be there #because they keep making me feel bad #they accepted me when i was The Weird Kid #but they cant accept me as an autistic adult #and they don't have to #just like i don't have to keep putting up with it

[edgy-dragon-trash]

Won’t be able to watch the direct, if something zelda or pokemon related happens tell me

#or if they port tomodachi life #i have zero hopes for anything tho #i like setting a low standard for directs

[crescentmp3]

i also made a sketch of quinn to go with celeste's recent deawing but apparently my camera hates me now and refuses to take a picture with good quality.

#i hate this phone. but i would rather die than change it #good grief why must my camera be this way to me #it's so grainy... fifteen pixels in there. not one noticable difference between its low standard and high quality settings #🌙rambling