so, upon further consideration, I think they’re using Twilight to give all the other agents breaks/time off. He’s got his missions, but also acts as the fill in, hence the overworking

They know he’ll do it because he wouldn’t be the top spy if he actually said no to a mission because of something as weak sauce as sleep deprivation. They are literally spies, they know his pride won’t let him relax if nothing else.

But why are they doing it? It probably has something to do with the giant castle, furniture, and calling a literal castle full of agents. They are taking every dalc out of his hide and feel no shame.

Gotta explain the castle playdate to their bosses in Westalis somehow.

this is my entire stance on the "american food is bad" discourse summed up

well mark that down as situation 2938489 that I don't know how to handle

maybe my toxic workplace trait is that I'm a snob about tea, but one day my director poured some tapwater in a carton gobelet over a lipton teabag and microwaved it for one minute before handing it to me so actually I'm the traumatized one here and they should give me a kettle with a thermometer and a triple 3-5-8 minutes hourglass as legal compensation

So, my husband... my husband who can't walk and had to go to the hospital for some examinations, where I called medical cab for because he also has wounds and should not sit in a normal car, got told by his health insurance... "Yeah, that transport was not medically neccessary, we won't pay for it." Which means the bill will go to us. And I was like "What the fuck?! Are you serious?! I will have to go and say not to that." And then read their requirements for taking the payment and uh... they are actually pretty solid. They really made sure to not leave any loophole left. I still think it is MEAN because they apparently think it is fine, that I, a 68 kg woman, haul a 107 kg man in his 20 kg wheelchair down the stairs and drive him to the hospital?! How should I have managed to do that?! And then... "The cases have to be talked with us in advance and we might pay." Nobody EVER told me that! We called the hospital and they said to get a prescription from the doctor and we did and the doctor gave it to us without trouble and now the health insurance goes "Well, actually..." I work as a lawyer's assitant, but that is too much for me. Those GREEDY capitalists! Of course they would stop paying after so long and try to put as much cost on us as possible, grrrr! I am going to show this letter to my boss tomorrow and ask if he can see something anything to attack it... but I fear I might have to take the costs... I really put a dent in my poor savings over the past year...

Femme and butch aren't your replacement quirky words to say 'effeminate' and 'masculine' stop throwing these words around to describe non queer people geez, there's a culture that belongs to these terms, Taylor Swift isn't 'femme' or 'butch' and she most certainly is not 'a dyke'. When you get so careless about using those words, and often in a fully serious way, about non-queer people, they also get just as comfortable appropriating our words and jokingly throwing slurs back at us. Read the room once in a while

growing up by chicago has spoiled me rotten. i visit any other major metropolitan city and my reaction is always …oh! is that it?

Please, what is the high end plush brand? I was to stare longingly at the $110 racoon

YEAHHH let me go get Alfred :]

He sits nestled with my other guys

The brand is Hansa Creation! The plushes come with a little catalogue booklet of all their other collections

They don't just make small stuffed animals, there's a 150cm standing (upright) grizzly bear, a 230cm standing reindeer, a 125cm laying grey wolf, 150cm standing horse, 135cm standing saint bernard, A 370CM GIRAFFE AND A 330CM AFRICAN BULL ELEPHANT. And so many more.

(they also do marine animals and! Dinosaurs!)

They do domestic animals like dogs and cats too! And their animals are all life like (my dog Did Not like Alfred when I first got him)

I'll list all the animal collections that's listed in the booklet ↓↓↓

Euro-American

Domestic & Farm

Australian

African

Arctic

Jurassic

Marine

Rainforest

Puppets and also animatronics

Oh hey, a second chapter! This is the one where they get married. Yep, jumping straight to the legal nuptials here. Efficient! It's still not actually E-rated yet, that'll be the next update (because Wedding Night).

Title: The Winter Of Our Discontent (Chapter 2/?) (AO3) Fandom: MCU Rating: Explicit Pairing: Loki/Sylvie Wordcount: ~1700 for this chapter Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Arranged Marriage, Canon Divergence - Thor (2011), Angst, Enemies to Lovers, Blood and Violence, Sexism, Weddings, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Chapter Summary/Extract: “The last time I saw you, you were blue from head to toe and murdering my brother.”

Pran, laying on the sofa with his head on the pillow, barely breathing: Pat entering the room: Who broke my boyfriend? Wai: He just found out how much an AUTOcad license costs

that feeling when you want to write a long post ranting discussing something you feel especially strongly about but you're just. too Tired to actually sit down and do it

steam is removing ARS as a currency this is it friend i'm never seeing an indie game in my life again unless i pirate it lmao

i just need to put it out there that i'm disappointed by the costume quality from what i've seen of the fallout show

they really couldn't get any better paint for the power armor? they went hard on the vault set design, but they had to settle for some "cheap silver spray paint with a basic clear coat over it" vibe for the power armor???

Ugh, vision therapy makes me so angry.

For those who are not familiar, vision therapy is basically the idea that you can do eye exercises to fix certain conditions, mostly eye related ones.

Some of the more obviously scammy vision therapy stuff comes up in situations where it's pretty clearly never going to fix the thing it says it will fix- for example, eye exercises will never make you less nearsighted because nearsightedness is caused by the shape of your eyeball.

But I mostly see it come up in strabismus communities, and it's especially frustrating for me there.

(Strabismus is misaligned eyes - one eye pointing forward and one pointing in or out, for example. It can cause double vision, vision loss in one eye, and/or lack of depth perception)

The thing that makes it so frustrating in strabismus spaces is that there is some evidence that some vision therapy can help with some specific types of strabismus, as far as I can tell. But I haven't found evidence that it can help with other types of strabismus, such as the one that I have, and some people have reported that it makes things worse for them.

It's also expensive and not generally covered by insurance, or not covered very well.

When I first sought help for my strabismus, the optometrist I saw did try to get me to do vision therapy, which I declined because it was expensive, time consuming, and I didn't think there was enough evidence that it would help in my specific situation. She also prescribed me bifocals that did absolutely nothing, but acted very friendly and understanding and knowledgeable.

I eventually did get help that was actually effective - prism lenses and then eventually surgery, which is helping so far but there's always the risk I'll need prism again in the future because we don't really know why strabismus happens in some cases.

But I feel so bad when I see people saying things like how they're paying $1,000 a month for more than 2 years for their kid to do vision therapy and it isn't working.

They're under significant financial strain because they want to do the right thing and provide appropriate medical care for their kid, and it's being offered by people in regular optometry places that give you your normal eye exams, so it seems trustworthy.

But at the end of the day it's $1,000 a month for something that, as far as I can tell as a lay person, seems pretty controversial among experts and even if it might be helpful I think people probably should have more context than they're getting about that.

It just seems frustratingly easy to take advantage of people when it comes to medical conditions that don't have clearly understood causes and where all of the methods of treatment are at least a little bit risky and uncertain. Particularly when the current gold standard is surgery, which people are understandably wary of.

I'm not judging or frustrated by anyone who chooses to do vision therapy - like I said, it can be helpful for some specific situations. But I am frustrated at people trying to sell it as a one-size-fits-all solution without providing any appropriate context and while charging people exorbitant amounts of money for it.

(Disclaimer that I'm not a medical professional and this is not medical advice. I'm just a person with strabismus who has looked things up on the internet and spoken to multiple doctors about this stuff)

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i’m so tired and angry i can’t believe it’s just the beginning....