It was Maid Day today yesterday a week ago so I got struck by inspiration to draw the worsties, and it ran away from me into a whole AU where they’re coworkers at a maid cafe. She’s a med student & this is just a part time job, and this is his depression job while he gets his life back together. He needs something he can be workaholic about to forget what it’s like having a personal life and personal issues. He’s actually the accountant, but the new hire janitor (Izutsumi) doesn’t show up for half her shifts and is a sloppy worker, so he gets the extra work of doing her job on top of his because he’s undervalued and overworked. Of course, janitors also have an uniform to keep the aesthetic cohesion as they go about cleaning the place, of course.

Senshi’s the part time cook you only see slivers off, he’s kind and warm when you do see him and have a chat but most shifts he’s in and out the kitchen without a trace. Laios and Falin are regulars because Falin and Marcille are besties & in the same med school, Laios accompanies Falin as she visits her friend at work and gets hooked on the food. Chilchuck has to remind Marcille to work instead of chatting with Falin for an hour, and next thing he knows she’s distracting him from work too. That’s it that’s the AU. Inspired by this idol AU fanart a bit <3

This was not meant to be birthday gift but well…… Happy bday Chil!!!

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she’s texting barbie on the way to work and they’re gonna keep texting the whole time she’s at work

Dude I’m slogging my way through a batch of books from the 1800s trying to figure out if they’re out of copyright or not and that’s TOO HARD so I’m just gonna post about something totally unrelated I’ve been thinking about.

I haven’t actually seen it in this fandom at all but probably because our fandom didn’t exist pre- 2010. But like there’s been a general *idea* circulating recently that fic authors are *too sensitive* now and in the old livejournal/forum days people *begged* for critiques on their fics. They think it’s insane that we, the authors of today, keep telling people to stop being assholes and putting negative comments on fics.

And first of all, I’ve got sort of a “and then everybody clapped” mentality about it. Like I’m just side eyeing anyone who’s like “yeah I wanted everyone to give me HARSH FEEDBACK so I could IMPROVE” as if Hans Christian Andersen himself didn’t lay down in the mud and cry when he read a bad review. It is not in human nature to be like “here is my precious child now everyone give her a good prodding with a knife”. It’s just not.

But ALSO you know what was DIFFERENT about LJ days? The community was SMALLER. I might be more willing to risk some negative critiques if the fandom is just me and, say, 300 other people who are so insanely into said fandom that they’ll track down a fucking livejournal community for it. Fandom is SO accessible now that 1. The Normal People (no offense) are involved and 2. Much YOUNGER people are involved. And that’s a big demographic shift!! (Okay “normal people” needs explained but like. A quick explanation being that fandom used to be for the people who would unabashedly say “squee” and “glomp” and wear cat ears in public. If you are not that level of brazen you may be slightly on the normal side. It’s not bad. It’s just different).

Like I personally do not want a negative critique left by someone who hasn’t figured out that a negative critique isn’t “I didn’t like this plot so the fic sucks”. I TOOK A CLASS ON CRITIQUE IN COLLEGE. I do not expect a high schooler who stumbled upon my fic to be able to leave a helpful negative critique! They’re new to this!

But also like. I’m gonna be real. I don’t care what a stranger thinks of my fic. If they post a negative critique on my fic and I read it and I cry, that’s not me caring about what a stranger thinks, that’s me walking along and being punched in the face by a stranger. I still don’t care what the stranger thinks but I will be getting a restraining order bc I don’t want that to happen.

I *will* sometimes go to my friends whom I *trust* and say “hey this fic is a mess pls help” and they DO they say HELPFUL THINGS. And maybe that’s actually what Fandom Olds are thinking of. Because in a small fandom community you can TRUST people! Like being in a church of 20 where everyone has known everyone for forever versus being in a mega church of thousands. I’m not gonna trust a rando in a mega church. I’m gonna trust Linda from the tiny neighborhood church because she makes the best pizza casserole and she cat sat for me once. Expecting critique in a tiny livejournal community =/= expecting critique in the vast ocean of ao3.

Anyway I’m getting on a tangent. The point is, is authors aren’t *weak* for not wanting negative critique. It’s natural. I don’t know you or your history with fic. I will take comments and compliments because that is fuel in the fire of a writer’s heart. That’s symbiosis. I will not let you prune my writing tree with big loppers because I don’t even know if you’re a tree surgeon, and pruning a tree in the wrong places KILLS IT. DON’T BE A TREE KILLER. Yes this is two completely unrelated metaphors. No im not changing my them.

Honestly one of the reasons why I love the driftmark knife scene, other than the acting ofc (emma and liv, I will get you those Emmy noms TRUST!), is that we see how good but also how bad Rhaenyra is at the game.

In my VERY personal opinion, Rhaenyra becomes a more likable character when you take into account her lack of ummm.. acumen, especially politically. She is not very bright with her decisions 🤷🏽‍♀️, especially with how she moves as heir. And, in a way, it makes sense since the person who was supposed to teach her was 1. Too busy maritally raping her friend and ruining Rhaenyra’s claim in the process and 2. is a shit political mind on his own accord.

The absolute best part of the ‘vile accusations’ and the ‘Aemond must be sharply questioned’ of it all is that it’s one the smartest things Rhaenyra does the whole season… but also the dumbest 😭. Which imo is so Rhaenyra as a character. Plus it falls in line with the targaryen nature of doing things too headfast simply bc you can.

It is smart bc she is showing the room, Alicent specifically, that viserys will always back her over the greens. His own guilt and stupidity will always win out over what is plainly in people’s faces. The targtowers will never have viserys’ ear like that. Despite the lengths viserys went through to get them.

But it is also the dumbest bc in Rhaenyra’s words, now the targtowers see their sister for who she is. I’ll never get the ‘alicent (alone) turned the kids against each other’ argument. Like nah I think the bullying, Aemond losing an EYE, and Rhaenyra throwing him under the bus also helped with that lol. It can be manipulative or self serving for Alicent to tell Aegon that he is the challenge, even if he doesn’t want to be king at the time, but it can also be true. The same way people can call the little speech Otto gave Alicent at the beginning of ep 5 manipulative. That doesn’t make it any less real. Rhaenyra proves to all of them that it’s her or them. It also set Rhaenyra up to fail when her dad isn’t there anymore to save her by turning a blind eye to her choices.

More like rad-b-gone lol

it’s always wild to me how some ppl in the muslim community can be so homophobic when, if you read the arabic, that’s not what those verses are saying, and then turn around and be misogynistic when islam is literally the basis for modern feminism

Told my boss that NO I cannot take over customer phone calls because my anxiety will literally not be able to take it. And I’m being SO brave about it,

My problem with the concept of playing as astarion is that your chosen avatar acts as the leader of the group and there’s no way any of them would take orders from astarion

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it’s my first day off and i woke up at 7 and now i can’t go back to sleep

I HATE THIS WOMAN I HATE THIS WOMAN I HATE THIS WOMAN!!1!!1 SHE MAKES ME HATE MYSELF. LIKE BRO PLEASSRR JIST LET ME WIN LIKE IM LITERALLY A CHILD PLEASEE IM LITERALLY NOT EVEN HURTING YOU PLEEAASEEEE JUST LET ME MAKR PROGRESS😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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ok well my days been shit and all but I will say seeing one of my old professors posting resources/guides for faculty supporting campus protests did give me a touch of pride for my college and major. Like being in Texas and working for a job that I can’t be too “political” I have to be careful about what I’m sharing right now but seeing her posts made me feel a lot more like I can also be vocal, if she’s willing to risk her career I think I can too.

Y’all ever have some tell you x5 in five seconds to go brush your teeth when you also need to bathe and when you get mad at them and yell because they are not helping at all in fact are making it worse they immediately go “SHUT UP I DONT WANNA HEAR YOU TALK” because you start bringing up valid arguments like that is not helping me you repeated that in the spam of five seconds I also have other stuff and they can’t stand the fact that just because the rest of the family isn’t here they can’t just tell you to do stuff and you know you shouldn’t have yelled but they do this all the time and you’re tired of it and just want them to realize that they actually help less by telling you to shower/brush your teeth/bathe every two seconds when it’s obvious you’re tired and it just feels like they’re dragging you around and you can’t get made back otherwise they just tell you they don’t want to here you speak get away from me yada yada I hate my sister

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Stolas to Stella in episode 1 of season 2: “I tried so many years to make it comfortable for us, to have this family, but it was never enough!”

Me: Damn, this dialogue would have been really emotional had we actually SEEN any of that in the show, but all we saw was a man happy to screw his sex partner while his family was falling apart in the background, not even aware that his wife is planning to kill him and that his daughter is still miserable. 😀