The level of anger I have right now toward WB and James motherfucking Gunn… I can’t even put into words right now how angry I am.

How do you fucking do that to someone? Have them announce he’s Superman PRIOR TO HIRE…then HIRE HIM…only to then say NAH WE ARE GIVING THE ROLE TO SOMEONE ELSE THANKS FOR YOUR TIME DONT LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT!!! And THEN POST ABOUT IT AND SAY ‘…but we’re big fans of his and we talked about a number of future possibilities!’ Get the fuck out of here with that shit, trying to smooth your biggest fucking mistake out. We don’t want it.

Like you have to have some fucking balls to really rip the rug out from someone like that. And that someone was so ready to get back into that suit and rebuild Superman and the universe he would be in… only to just let him down so fucking hard.

And not just Henry.. we, the fans! The ones who wanted him back in the first place, and the ones who were excited or at least somewhat hopeful about this whole rebuilding of the DCU! You go and do us AND him dirty like that? Fuck you, man. Honestly, go fuck a cactus.

This really takes the fucking cake, WB. Wow.

Things that happen at work:

Got hired by a trucking company doing admin to safety stuff.

My new boss, in the interview: I’d love to have you start on *specific date* so that we can do the on boarding stuff, but we’re going to have the Driver Appreciation BBQ literally the day after and I want everyone to meet you.

Me: That’s honestly a good plan. I’m completely available for whatever happens, what time do I need to be there?

My actual second day of being hired and going through the whole set up of Driver Appreciation BBQ Day:

*chopped four onions for burgers and sobbed in the break room*

My boss: *lightly supervises but is honestly a Party Queen because she’s a Hispanic mom and is used to throwing parties for 100 plus people in her own backyard let alone a work bbq, you don’t even understand she literally looked at the corporate list of supplies and was like “nah, too much. Mmm. Maybe. Hm. Not enough.” AND WAS EXACTLY RIGHT she owns her own bouncy house, she’s got this shit on lockdown, ok?

So like two hours into this polite bullshit introductory hell scape (I am fine with meeting new people in large groups but I hate meeting people in “sterile corporate” settings, like, if I’m going to remember you, it’s because you did something actually meaningful or interesting, NOT because you shook my hand for five seconds and said you go by Steve or Becky…)

Me, to EVERYONE because my job is to Hand Out Shirts and Lunchboxes: Hi! I’m the new girl from Safety! Who are you exactly? Please don’t expect me to remember you, I’m terrible at putting names and faces together, but I’m sure we’ll talk again soon! What size T-shirt do you want? Here’s your lunch box!

Me: *finally gets a break and sits down to eat some honestly decent brauts and potato salad, deliberately choosing to sit next to one of the drivers that’s been at the company for a while* Hi, how’s it going? I’m the new safety girl!

Older driver whose name I don’t know YET: I’m doin’ pretty good with all this free food. So, you gonna stick around after the little one comes along, or are you gonna leave us high and dry like the last one?

Me, honestly pretty angry but trying to be cool: Not pregnant, just fat.

*very very very awkward silence, like this dude knew that he fucked up, but also the way my body is shaped I really don’t blame him for thinking what he did*

He did actually apologize right then and there, and honestly the entire way he went about everything was from a genuinely good place, and I personally thought it was funny after it was all said and done. Verbal on the spot forgiveness type stuff.

Guess who fucks up the very next day by UNINTENTIONALLY losing a very important document of the exact driver who “insulted” me?

Yeah. So. I spent my entire first week on a brand new job searching through three giant filing cabinets and 20 years worth of documents for ONE fucking medical card. I didn’t find it. Believe me, I looked at every single piece of paper in those cabinets, I have no fucking clue where I put it.

The driver was really nice about it and we had a good laugh about him putting his foot in his mouth and me swearing up and down I didn’t do it for revenge.

Honestly I have no idea how any of this will turn out, but every one seems nice so far so I’m really hopeful.

Already had an idk how long hour rant session with Sarah about this shit but I'm still so annoyed so part 2 lmao

It's so profoundly frustrating and discouraging how itzy continues to be mistreated in every fucking facet you can imagine for the sin of literally being successful, talented women.

They're literally div 2's bottom line but the company acts like they're doing the girls a favour by even posting about their cbs on the accs that were literally made to promote itzy. We are just now getting some semblance of tiktok freedom 5 years into their career meanwhile idols that debuted after them have their own instagrams and their juniors in the same company have more freedom on all sorts of socials. We've confirmed that div 2 flubs so many of their opportunities for who knows what fucking reason after what happened with the CK Yeji event. And most importantly everything to do with Jisu — never fucking protecting her in any way, overwork, stifling her and the other girls' creativity, not utilising her voice well and every other fucking stupid thing they've done that's definitely made what she's going through so much worse. The girls are a cash grab to that fucking company (to the point we literally first learned about the cb and tour in the same post that was announcing Jisu's diagnosis) and they're not even allowed to express any frustration or sadness over that because "that's not professional" and they'd probably lose everything they've worked so hard for.

If they look sad you're not supposed to acknowledge to it or sympathise with it or treat them as human beings because it's "funny" to joke about how they want to get off work and anyway they're idols who gives af about idols anyway right? So called midzys are more concerned about making unfunny jokes than actually getting to know these girls. Every mf will say "ot5" then turn around and straight up hating certain members. Dehumanisation has become so fucking normalised in midzyville but then mfs will act surprised that the company gets away with this very obvious exploitation and mistreatment. If you view these human beings as a product that you can say whatever tf you want about on sites that you know they frequent because "it's just a joke lol" ofc the mfs presenting them as a product are going to benefit from it 😭

Then you have fuckass bitchass shitstain mnet and their hate boner for itzy. The largest number of most viewed videos on choom, the first choom performance to get more than 50 million views that's still consistently gaining more and more views, the first mix and max vid to get 50 million that's also still gaining views and gagged the kpop space so hard that Bebe Rexah released a korean specific version of break my heart myself and performed at fucking kcon because of Ryujin and Yeji, and their MAMA 2021 being the most iconic performance of that night (to the point that mnet decided to call back to it again last year mind you). You'd think wow hey these guys get us views let's be nice to them and keep them around.... but nah, deleted their iconic fucking performance that gave their boring award show relevance, deleted their debut stage, don't invite them to choom anymore, didn't even send ryeji their trophy or record something for Yeji when she got hers and then the bullshit that went on today lmao. Like it's so fucking obvious and you have to wonder WHY ffs

I have nothing against the group that won even though some of their stans are the most disgusting scum of the earth but like surely.... the numbers did not make sense. Even if you say itzy's digital points were too high okay fine that's just affirming that mnet isn't very honest with their numbers. They deleted itzy's untouchable stage for who knows what fucking reason then uploaded it later with reset views. How tf am I supposed to believe all this was above board when we've been beating that fandom in voting CONSISTENTLY even if they mobilised fandoms to help okay fine but did they enlist the whole of stantwt or something lmao how tf was the difference that great? Why were the sns scores so fucking weird when itzy untouchable shorts have consistently more views? Why is it "cope" or being a sore loser to call foul play when there's so much pointing to it being that AND mnet has a history of rigging??? The only real answer is it's because this happened to a girl group and specifically because this happened to itzy. They released one song people didn't like and suddenly deserve every terrible that happens to them is deserved and just "midzys complaining about nothing". And when it gets to a point where even the girls seem visibly frustrated and dissapointed? "Nah they just want to go home early lol don't read too much into it don't care"

This is so long and I feel like I could go on forever but tldr I just wish better for them man 🫠 every group is unique and important in their own way but itzy are really once in a lifetime performers. I know there's no such thing as a perfect world where everything goes smoothly especially for girl groups but fuck is it too much to ask for a little respect on their names and for everyone to leave them tf alone at the bare minumum 😭 itzy is the only group under div 2 just fucking do your jobs lmaooo

do you have any rich!Derek fics?? Like he’s super rich and moves Stiles in for some reason and then Sterek happens?? Love this blog!!

Hi anon. @kevaaronday found these for you!

Thank You For This Dance by matildajones

(62,463 | 26/26 | Mature | Sterek) Derek picks up another glass of champagne, and that’s when he sees him. A man stands at the edge of the room, chewing his lip and staring at the dance floor longingly. 

Every person walks past him. Derek must have done it a hundred times this evening. 

--

Derek is not one for dancing, but at a ball he meets Stiles, an orphan, and he becomes quickly attached. He does not care what other people think about Stiles' wealth and status, but it's a lot harder for Stiles to ignore the comments that have haunted him his whole life.

It's even harder to convince Stiles that Derek's feelings are genuine.

Rich Man, Poor Man by TyReed (58,055 | 10/10 | Mature | Sterek) During a first date gone horribly wrong, Stiles Stilinksi realizes that the snarky guy he's been asked out by is actually Derek Hale, an heir to Hale Industries, one of the most profitable companies in the entire world. Who is, for whatever reason, interested in the son of a teacher and a cop, a loser who spends all weekend watching movies in his pajamas, and who is also possibly one of the biggest dorks on the Internet.

At the same time, after screwing up their first date horribly, Derek Hale realizes that the funny guy he's asked out is Stiles Stilinksi, the warmest and kindest individual he's ever met in his life, with a family just a loving and caring. Who is, for whatever reason, interested in a guy who screws up everything he does, lacks any semblance of a backbone, and who is possibly one of the biggest history dorks in all of the United States.

These rich and poor men will come to experience a taste of each other's lives, and learn where the real blessings in the world can be found.

Can You Feel A Whole New Part of Your World? By isthatbloodonhisshirt (53246 | 1/1 | Gen | Sterek) “Can you hear me singing in the shower?” Stiles blurted out, because he had to know, now. If one of his neighbours had slid that note under his door, then it meant Parrish as another neighbour could hear him, too! He had to know if this was all a huge joke and one person had walked by and overheard him and decided to fuck with him.

Or if everyone could hear him and he now had to leave the country. 

Parrish gave him a weird look at the question, but answered anyway, making Stiles’ plans to leave the country speed up in his mind. 

“Of course I can. You’re actually not bad. Though you have been singing a lot of Frozen lately, getting kind of tired of the soundtrack.” 

“Oh my God!” Stiles shouted in his face.

Looking For The Feeling Lost Inside by suchfun (46,069 | 1/1 | Mature | Sterek) "Am I wrong? Do you secretly love modelling? Because if you do then fucking A man, get your coin, but if you're—"

"I can't fucking do anything else!" Derek snarls, and fuck. The shock of it, of finally saying it out loud, startles him out of his beta shift and into silence.

Stiles squints at him. "You mean—" He drags his bottom teeth over his top lip, eyes darting between Derek's. "You mean that literally, don't you. You think you have nothing else to offer."

"I don't have a college degree. I don't have any real life experience or transferable skills," Derek says roughly. "I'm not—a peopleperson. Money and connections only get you so far. Most people don't— it's not worth it."

He knows Stiles hears what he's trying really hard not to say.Stiles

That he's not worth it.

Checks and Balances by AwaitTheMorrow (13,539 | 1/1 | Teen | Sterek) Stiles starts dating Derek after a chance encounter and can't believe how lucky he is.

Derek is smart, funny and genuinely the sweetest person Stiles has ever met. The guy is perfect.

...Maybe a little too perfect.

So When Do I Get To Pledge My Loyalty To The Mob? By RedRidingStiles (10,089 | 1/1 | Mature | Sterek) “Are you my sugar daddy?” Stiles blurts out, slapping a hand over his mouth when his brain catches up to his mouth. The man lets out a soft laugh, making his way around the couch till he’s standing just feet away from Stiles. Stiles can smell his cologne from here, it smells heavenly, Stiles kinda wants to bury his face into the guy's chest so he can figure out exactly what it is. 

“If that’s what you’d like to call it.” The man smiles, Stiles doesn’t think he should be allowed to smile like that. All soft and gorgeous and way too pretty to be legal. He’s still not convinced any of this is real. 

Stiles loses his wallet, someone returns it along with $5,000. Shit keeps coming, Stiles life doesn't make any sense anymore, he's just going with it.

Saw you mention ADHD inattentive? And I had not heard the specific kind of adhd but what you described sounds true to me (also can’t do a diagnosis right now). But I’d consider myself a very creative person. I want to create freely like I did as a child, improve, and excel but I struggle with the motivation. I end up scrolling on my phone or watching tv. How do you manage that or deal with it without being hard on yourself? Thank you for your time!

So I've been looking into ADHD more seriously in the past three years. I've had bouts of anhedonia and the most recent one last for two years and it got to the point where I couldn't even watch or read two-seconds of anything without it feeling utterly painful and I had no idea what the hell that was about. But I at least had the awareness after it happened often enough that my attention span was fucked and I genuinely didn't seen to latch onto or enjoy anything anymore and I thought 'Wow, guess this is adulthood for me, sheesh'.

I also thought back to myself as kid growing up, some things I knew I did and some things I did that had been told me. Apparently my dad thought I might be autistic when I was 4, but never followed up on that. Nobody cared that I was a good test taker but rarely ever turned in homework. Oh, ooh, she must just not care, wah. My mom told me stories as an infant that align with me being an HSP baby, and I def have Rejection Dysphoria which is kinda getting better but sometimes still results in petty Splitting spirals. 😅

Sorry, none of this has to do with your question but maybe it'll useful to someone else. 😅

So the funny thing is, I am not addicted to social media. 😭 I barely use it. So I don't have anything personal I provide about that, but you could try going minimal on your phone. Just dummy the hell out of it. Remove apps, etc. I know companies be breaking how their shit works on mobile browser, at least for me, the site gets app-blocked basically. "Open in App", "Get our App", ugh. 🙄😮‍💨 But when you make distractions harder to get to, you can readjust your reliance on it. Backtracking slightly, I used this method to cut off my 'addiction' to Reddit. I still rly don't get hooked on socmed otherwise. 🤔 I always bookmark stuff or keep the tabs open, and say I'll get to it later. 😅 I'm always accruing things for myself or some creative endeavor. I kinda relate to Markiplier in that way, that the only time he hangs with his friends or makes friends is if it's during a project. His whole life rotates around the next idea and the next idea. 😅 Forgive me, I'm rambling quite a bit.

Tldr; make distractions more inconvenient, lol.

If you feel like your symptoms are unmanageable, their could be other disorders that you need to take care of. Some ADHD-havers need stimulants and others need anti-depressants.

I'm a stimulant-type. I started taking a $30 B-complex supplement when I noticed that Monster energy made me feel better. I get high caffeine blend plus 2 shots of espresso from my preferred gas station. As a female, I had to pay attention to my PMS symptoms making me sleepier than ever. Some shit got out of balance and I was a goner for the following two weeks.

Your next question about not beating yourself up. My suggestion is trying meditation, maybe getting an ONO roller or something like it, something to make your hands busy when you're trying to devote your attention to something. Just focus on clearing away the background processes of anxiety in your internal task manager and try to visualize how you'll feel when you get that thing done.

Like, I still procrastinate on folding the laundry. It'll literally take me 20 mins or less and I can watch videos while I do it, but I just don't for rly no good reason. 😅 But it's better to feel guilty while doing the thing you've been avoiding, then feeling better after becuz it's done. And then maybe the guilt lessens becuz you've created this routine and positive association, 'Hey, I can do this thing. Hey, this actually takes no time at all.' You know?

I'm no expert and everyone's experience is different. But I recommend looking into it more for yourself. The HowToADHD channel is a pretty good one to start with. They are like the definitive channel for sure. I know that Dr. K put out smthn a couple years ago as well, but all in all, you can only do your best and try to retrain how you do things. There's stuff too like the Pomodoro Effect... 🤔 Just try to find what works for you! Even rn I'm so distracted with writing that I haven't been drawing at all, so I'm just managing myself, pretty much just scraping by. 😅

Oh yeah, I started opening all the cabinets to make putting dishes away easier. Idk if that's useful to you, lol. ADHD requires quirky solutions, haha.

Sorry this turned out so long! I'm wishing you all the luck! 🙏🤗

Just A Little While 2/3

Billie Dean Howard X Reader

A/n: sorry for the slow updates, it will probably stay like that for a while. I appreciate your big response to this story on tumblr/Wattpad. Here you go, a short, part 2.

Still inspired by The 502s - Just A Little While

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It’s been two months since you started to work as Billie Dean‘s chauffeur and things could not go better. Never would you have thought that this job is something you could do forever.

You could drive around forever.

You could live on this paycheck forever.

You could be with her, in the car, forever.

Billie Dean never stopped being charming, being funny, which makes it so hard for you to contain yourself from not falling in love with the older woman but lately you even started to fail yourself in thinking you could deny your heart this strong feeling even longer.

God knows whenever she gets in that car and looks up to you from her backseat you feel like your heart bursts into pieces of this bittersweet taste of love. You enjoyed your time with her and that was the thing you genuinely valued. It wasn’t hard to be with Billie Dean, in fact it felt like you have known the medium for a decade and you got the feeling she enjoyed your company just as much. Sometimes she would speak a low „darling,“ followed by „why don’t we take the longer route, I really enjoy the playlist.“ while typing on her phone.

You couldn’t deny her anything, you couldn’t count the times Billie Dean came too late to a set just so the two of you could finish listening to the current playing song in the car.

Every day the car was filled with laughter and her soothing voice until today.

Something about Billie felt weirdly off today. No music, no laughing, no „darling“ and god did you find yourself missing it.

About 30 minutes after you picked her up to drive her home you had enough. „Hey Ms. Hollywood?” you broke the silence. A small “hm?” left the other woman’s lips. “Why so grumpy today?” You said with a little smile on your face, trying to keep the mood as playful as possible. “You know what y/n?” the woman responded, “I do not pay you for speaking, I pay you for driving. We’re not talking.” you were taken aback by her suddenly harsh demeanour “Billie,” you started but got cut off immediately. “I said, we are not talking.” You felt yourself getting angry by her demanding tone. You were done with people treating their employees like they were less. Who did Billie Dean even think she was? She had a hard time finding a chauffeur so you literally saved her ass or she would have drowned in the stress now she’s sitting in the comfort of her backseat which allowed her at least some breaks.

You don’t know where exactly you got your anger nor the confidence from but around the next corner you stopped the car. Since you basically jumped onto the brakes your

Boss got almost thrown out of the front window. „What the hell are you doing?“ she said, her anger clearly visible by her features. „I..“ you started blurting out just as angry as her till you realized…yeah shit what the hell were you doing. You quickly looked to the other side of the street which showed a cinema. „I’m going to the cinema.“ you said confidently, grabbing your purse from the little counter in the middle of the car. And then you left the car making your way across the street to the cinema. „What the fuck am I doing?“ you thought to yourself. You expected the car you left behind to just drive off but instead you heard the mediums heels clicking, following you quickly with a lot of „what the fuck?“ „y/n!!!“ „what are you doing?“ leaving the older woman’s mouth. But you didn’t stop. In fact you already stood at the cashier, choosing the movie and paying. Before you went in you turned to Billie “I’m going to the movies, like I already said earlier so you come in with me or you might as well drive yourself home.” Billie looked at you, mouth slightly agape. When she collected herself again Billie Dean was about o counter with something equal as sassy but was quickly cut off by someone screaming behind her “Oh. My. God!! Billie Dean Howard?” A girl in her 20s squealed at Billie. She rolled her eyes, just visible for me before she turns around. She flashed her biggest smile before taking a picture. In not even 10 seconds a crowd of people gathered around you. You watched her never fading smile. It didn’t reach her eyes. Billie Dean looked tired. You quickly caught up to the events and with a sigh you bought another movie ticket before just taking Billie’s hand and dragging her inside with you.

She just followed your lead, quietly. She didn’t dare to speak. She in fact felt more than embarrassed for snapping at you earlier because how could you know that this wasn’t the first crowd of people the medium managed today but the difference between now and earlier was no one came to her rescue when it got overpowering. Billie loved her fans but sometimes it was just a lot. Today was one of those days.

When you and her stood in line for snacks and drinks she whispered a small “thank you.” you just shook it off because you were still a bit angry. You did not deserve earlier and you both knew it. After a while you turned to her. „You know Billie I love listening to you when you had a troubled day, I’m also more than glad to shut up but this earlier, that wasn’t okay.“ Billie Dean faced the floor. „I know.“ You turned again to study the drink options. Billie sighed. „But hey, at least I got free movie tickets.” She tried to joke. You turned to her, rolling your eyes at her. Billie composed herself, raising her hands in surrender before putting on her sunglasses. You continued looking at her with a raised eyebrow. “What?” she said smiling. “You shine a bright light Ms. Hollywood but this,” you gestured to her shades “is really not necessary in here.”

“Stop calling me that.” Billie replied. “I know you like it.” You grinned at her and she flashed you her white teeth, this time in a genuine smile.

As you turned around again it was almost your turn. You pointed out what you wanted to the cashier and ordered the same for Billie Dean.

“I can’t even choose my own order?” she said as you made your way to the right theater. You looked at her chuckling. “As long as you wear these ugly shades. No.” You kept laughing slightly. “Hey! They’re Prada.” Billie whisper-yelled at you. You grabbed your purse looking around it for some seconds before you pulled out your own shades. “15 bucks, H&M, and so much better.” Billie took off her glasses. „Let me see.“ she said, before placing your shades on the bridge of her nose. You bursted out laughing. After about two minutes the medium stopped you. “What?” she chuckled. You stood in-front of her, getting closer before removing the shades from her face. “You’re genuinely beautiful Billie Dean but your face is not made for shades.” you whispered. Just now you realised how close you’ve gotten. Billie’s eyes met yours before she brushed a loose strand of hair behind your ear. „ I appreciate the compliment, darling.“ she said while her hand rested on your cheek. Your gaze averted to the ground as you could feel the heat getting into them. You heard the older woman chuckle. „No need to get flustered.” she whispered before tilting up your head by your chin. You were so close you could feel her breath on your face. What if you would just close the gap? What if Billie Dean doesn’t want the same? Would she be mad? You didn’t think so. Billie Dean wasn’t the person to just get mad and fire people. She was too good for that, too mature. You would have to face an uncomfortable conversation afterwards that was for sure. “Fuck it.” you said quietly before getting closer to her. Just a tiny gap separated the two of you when you heard a little splash beneath the two of you. “Shit!” Billie yelled as she looked onto the floor. “I guess I spilled the coke.” She said laughing. You looked at her with furrowed eyebrows. “Well,” she continued. “instead of the tea I spilled the coke.” you continued to look at her in disbelief. “Jesus Billie you got the worst humour ever.” you chuckled. “It worked though.” she said looking at your beaming face.

You broke free from each others gaze when you saw an angry looking move employee walking at you. “We gonna get kicked out.“ you said while looking at the from step to step angrier looking employee.

„No.“ Billie dryly said with a smile before grabbing your hand and just running off. „I haven’t been in the cinema for years and I won’t let a cola destroy that for me.“ she said already a bit out of breath. You couldn’t stop laughing till you turned the corner to theater 8. Billie quickly pushed you inside before dragging you with her behind the cinema door. You both held your breath and stood there, hands touching the other ones till the door of the room closed, the trailer started and you both looked at each other bursting out in laughter.

same anon here! no hate on needing to take a break before finishing summer sons <3 i happened to read it at possibly THE most perfect moment of my life, so it sunk it’s claws in and never let go. i keep forgetting that not everybody can experience it like that. i will say, based on how you described the other book you said was similar, you may be surprised by summer sons— it leads with a simple premise, and manages to be so much more. i describe it to my friends as like three different stories masquerading as one. i like to think i’m not super emotionally affected by things but that story breaks me a little if i stop to think about it (and the implications) for long. i’m not sure if you’ve read the raven cycle (if not, you should), but some aspects of the storytelling are comparable for good reason. also, if you don’t like cars now, you might find yourself with a newfound appreciation after finishing it. shit was partially responsible for sending me headlong into car obsession, now i’m trying to buy a mustang that i can rip apart to put a big engine/supercharger combo in to fit my even bigger ego. i’m very broke. it hurts. Lee Mandelo open the door i just want to talk. peace and love.

I totally get what u mean about a book hitting u at the perfect time of your life. I have a few books that I come back to over and over again just to recapture the feeling I had during that first read, you know?

omg I was a HUGE raven cycle fan back in the day (who am I kidding, I have multiple signed copies of Maggie Stiefvater's books, I'm still a fan asdfghk). I actually heard that the author was influenced by TRC and read an essay he wrote analyzing it! From what I've read, Andrew definitely radiates some Ronan energy. Also, I love Maggie Stiefvater's magical realism (for the lack of a better term) and I've been so so hungry for more media that is able to capture that same, almost liminal, magic.

also it's kind of funny that you asked if I like cars or not because I am very very much a car girl. like my first car was a classic that I worked on as a kid. my dad literally gifted me merch from an auto equipment company this past christmas asdfghjui.

I have no interest in street racing through :/ Where I'm from the car culture is very much about cruising and lowriding and showing off the bodywork you've done vs. going all high octane (no disrespect, it's just not for me, and, besides, once you experience the torque of an electric motor there is nooooo going back -- fuck tesla and their shitty cars though, they are excluded from this conversation)

anyways... I will definitely be picking the book up again in the near future, so I'll keep u updated on what I think!!

III NEW EPISODE SPOILER ALERT.

It's honesty just me rambling about the show,you may kept on scrolling.

Honesty? The episode was 7 or 8 ish outta ten.

It was fine and nice one,i don't have strong opinions on me especially when my brain tuning out two times from heing overwhelmed but it was a fine episode. But here's what i thought:

sorry,i know it's balloon imagination. but cheesy voice act hurts my ear. And the fact that bro literally said that balloon already done so much and sacrifice himself even tho by logic,he definitely would only exist for an episode feels funny. And don't let me start talking about the simp superman fantasy novel hehe... This 'writing challenge' draws each character perspective pretty nicely tho

Feels like some of the challenge was a reverence from the other show

this whole innerflame things was getting pretty.. Something. Sorry i don't know how to word it out. But am i the only one who feels this was just. Idk,i'm feeling like those feelings that i felt on most of the iii episode but a bit less ig. at least i can make my candle au innerflame a pretty destructive one as shown on the episode hehe

Cabby protecting the sea pup was definitely on character.

Throw the thingy in - ppt2

Balancing - hfjone

Imma update soon once i find others

Theory:

springy and walkie talkie are cobs worker/creation to distract me phone from getting back into season 2 problem he caused. But honesty? knowing the man, He wouldn't go through that such leght. He gave me energy that he would rather copy other company idea and pass it as his own or create his own bot/use an ai to create the whole season and only hire people to make the quality good at puking a fuck ton of rainbow and random action for the kids to not get distracted but got confused when people said it's the worst thing ever because he thought that good animation style=your series was automatically awesome even tho if it was a me phone,it would explode at the second it was finished. How i get that idea you may ask? Well i'm definitely not putting cob as springy on my au.. Heh.

Wait what i was talking again? Oh yeah

since this season feels like it was more into focusing at one theme at a time. springy would give out some sort of symbolism too,like. walkie and springy definitely represent those companies that buy another company/cartoons and milks the fuck out of it.making them soulless as hell. Walkie talkie definitely show the manager who pushed it worker the most... Ehem ehem- disney..

Orr they draw how the fans wanted to kept the show on and on. Society pressure and stuff. But i honesty didn't see that one

the walkie talkie person real identity would 100% be showed next episode. Like cmon,i wouldn't believe a non faced objects to be alive. No,we don't talk about season 1.

The funny thing about twitter is I am completely willing to buy that the company could survive and even thrive with a 50% staff reduction. Companies get bloated all the time, new leadership comes in and trims fat, its really normal.

And what that looks like is over a series of ~6 months you bring in consultants, interview teams, do a big org review, and do a series of layoffs targetting the fat that process discovered over time. What it *doesn't* look like is firing 75% of your staff in two weeks based on things like an ultimatum to 'work hard'

Like fucking, serously, think about that ultimatum for a second - what do you *do* if your *most important* workers who *aren't fat* quit? That metric isnt targetted *at all* at increasing efficiency, its a fucking shotgun.

This by the way is why consultants exist - Elon wanted to be a private equity firm, do that leveraged buy out playbook, but he has literally never done it in his life and so fucked it up. Should have forked over a few million to McKinsey and waited a few months, but oh well.

i think this article has a lot of important things to say but does a bad job of saying them

I think something I find very weird about this article is the fact that its titled the way it is. like why is AJN in the title? It’s clickbaity and a little unprofessional. And I don’t even disagree with 99% of what it’s saying, the likelihood that 90% of the story is true is quite high. However, there are so few sources that can actually be traced back. There’s some very unneeded speculation. Alexander J Newall being targeted only in the title with nothing in the article really blaming him for anything is just weird. he's the ceo, yes, but you have placed your (named) blame within the article almost entirely on this one callum dougherty.

The fact that it was retweeted by a former TMA voice actor is pretty compelling. And the fact that former people who worked with Rusty Quill whether as volunteers or staff can attest to their poor communication. And bad practices in general. I mean I pretty much do believe a lot of it. Just I find the lack of concrete evidence within the article and the lack of good journalistic practice to detract a lot from the message of the article.

Also names of characters in TMA as pseudonyms feels very unserious. When I reached the bit that was talking about Georgie and Melanie I was like come on please be for real. like this is serious business😭. also I’m seeing the author does a freelancing work with another podcasting company and it’s been argued that they were only freelancing so it’s not that big of a deal. But I don’t know I don’t like that.

Either way the people we really need to think about other people affected by rqs bad practices. I think it really is just incompetence. But they could really really really do better. Also the fact of the author is blocking anyone with any criticism on Twitter??? I don’t think that proves anything other than that they do not know how to make their article look good. That coupled with the weird journalistic choices and the caption they put on their Twitter ("make your statement face your fear" LMFAO?! how unnecessary! again, be serious!) it really does make them look less credible even though in reality the article has legs.

at the end of the day i think it just needed more time. i get the point of releasing this as soon as possible to give fans much needed info on what their fav company is doing in the midst of their kickstarter (lmfao idk i find that quite funny) just… it wasn't done very well or with much thought as to how to actually deal with people who disagree. and by “well” i mean you cannot release an article full of unverifiable info with your (admittedly not TOO damning) background and not one first hand verifiable quote and expect no “hmmm…”s. cuz the author is out here blocking people lmfao. not for disagreeing with the points in the article but for saying “hey i'm not sure you have put much thought into how you wrote this!”

i also think it's very annoying the way people are in the comments of podcasters working under rusty quill talking about the article saying "but u can't say other people didn't experience this!!!' they're not saying that brother. they're responding directly to the “podcasters under rq won't say anything bc theyre not allowed!!!!!” portion of it which i would respond to, too, like don't be silly. like fuck u niggas no one can fucking gag me dont say that😭. again again again… i am very very VERY inclined to believe almost everything in said article. i just find its release into the world and its writing to be a little… subpar. better than nothing i guess. tho is it? people have literally been saying everything here about rq for a while. save the suing and contract stuff i think and even then, you cannot bring up something as serious as SUING and not elaborate lmao! good concept bad execution imo. anywaysssss

I don’t know I just feel like it’s a little bit juvenile for what it’s meant to be and what I think it’s meant to be is an important expose which actually says important things but does it weakly.

TLDR; this article has a lot of important things to say about rusty quill's bad practices but it does it in ways that are very unprofessional. Speculation and the clickbaity title and the lack of concrete sources and twitter caption and the author whose freelance work may or may not be relevant to disclose in an article about their ex-clients competition and the substitution of anonymous names with characters from the Magnus archives. They all paint a picture of a very inexperienced writer whose work amounts mostly to an opinion piece. However I am inclined to believe the allegations made in said article for the reason that there have been a lot of people who previously worked with rusty quill saying the same thing. or mostly the same thing. I just think this article uncovered very little new information and something about it seems mean-spirited, almost as if it was for something that isn’t just the betterment of the affected peoples conditions. But that’s just speculation 😛and honestly just my feelings, not backed up by anything. For me this is more an exercise in analysing an article in general than it is analysing the situation at hand. I’m a writer at heart I’m sorry

Could you please do a head canon about Bruno’s life back home in Liverpool. Like what car do you imagine he drives, what’s his house/apartment like etc?

What is it with these asks reading my mind today? I was legit thinking about this yesterday as I drove home.

His house

-> My first instinct was that he still lived at home. But, after thinking about it, I think he has moved out, but the only reason for it was because his sisters told him that no girl would want to go out with him if he still lived with his Mum in his twenties. Cue panic. His sisters know exactly how to get in his head. He probably only moved out within the past year or two.

-> He's got roommates. He likes the company. Definitely at least one is a girl, and she mothers him a bit, making sure he's eating something other than porridge. I picture it being a really big, old house. Like a lovely old terrace. It's nothing super modern or fancy, but it has a great vibe and they all get along really well. A bit of a party house, maybe? Because of his work in standup, I wouldn't be surprised if they were mostly shift workers or night workers - bartenders, nurses, etc.

-> Probably near Anfield. He's a Liverpool FC boy and football is life. (Fuck The S*n).

His room

-> It's actually pretty neat. If you do the prank where you hide the boys' clothes in the freezer, Bruno comes to ask about them and says that 'the boys are saying I tidied them away somewhere'. So, it's canon that he's at least somewhat tidy. I think he's actually far neater than we'd think. (Again... thank his sisters. They would shame him for being gross or untidy)

-> That said, he does lose stuff a lot. So things are in weird places. It makes zero sense to anyone but him.

-> Probably has a giant Liverpool FC flag or something in his room. Maybe a signed jersey that's framed? I can imagine his sisters spoiling him a little and buying him one for his birthday.

-> Absolutely did not make his bed the one day he has a girl over, panics a little about it when he remembers.

His car

-> I am in two minds about this. He's either super not fussed about cars, or he's really into them (or thinks he is)

Option 1# - He doesn't even have a car. Mostly because he doesn't need one? The public transport in Liverpool is good. He doesn't live that far from work or his family, so he just gets public transport.

Option #2 - He does have a car, and it's a modified Subaru WRX or Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. He bought it second-hand when he was 19 from a guy who'd already done all the kit, because he thought he could get into being a 'car guy', even though he barely knows how to change a tyre. So yeah. Manual transmission, obnoxiously loud exhaust... he loves it though, and has had it for ages. It probably has a name.

-> Unlike his room, his car's a bit of a mess if he has one. He doesn't spend that much time in there. His backseat has a whole lot of random clothes in it and stuff he forgot about. Probably at least four umbrellas back there.

His job

-> Operations Assistant by day. I reckon he works at a small business / small-ish company. It literally is just a day job for him. They know about his standup dreams and are super supportive if he has to leave early to get somewhere for it.

-> He sucks at the organisational part of his job, but the owners don't really mind, because all the clients adore him. Most of the clients are local, and he just talks footie with them.

-> All his coworkers have been trying to set him up for ages. He's a nice kid - good-looking and funny, so I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them were trying to hook him up with their daughters too.

-> Probably has multiple flirtationships going at once - coffee shop barista, girl at the corner store, receptionist, but all of them harmless. Friendzones himself by being so disarmingly nice, but reluctant to ever ask any of them out.

-> He quit his job to come on Love Island. He told his old boss where he was going, and they said they'd have him back if things didn't work out for him, but he's hoping he doesn't have to. He knows they're all watching him on Love Island and he's absolutely cringing at the thought of them watching him getting laid.

-> He's had a very hit-and-miss standup career so far. He won a competition to open for Tiff's friend, and bombed. My HC is that he wrote something that really toed a line or was taboo, and then changed his mind / chickened out of performing the routine on the day because he decided it was too risky. So he tried coming up with something on the fly, and it went terribly. It destroyed his confidence, but he's been far more prepared since then and has been refocusing on just talking about stuff he knows. But when he's in his element, he kills it, and has built a reasonably strong reputation for himself.

-> Similar to in his day-job, he probably has a few older guys who've adopted him a little, mentoring him. HC of a Dodgeball / Patches O'Houlihan-style relationship with some former comedian who went off the rails or retired ages ago.

Well now that I've seen the movie I guess the only thing I can do is re-read Handle With Care and pretend it never existed in the first place ! Do I dare ask what you thought of it ?

Oh boy. I TRULY am not even sure where to start. I’ll preface this by saying I didn’t have particularly high hopes, and was kinda just expecting to enjoy the nostalgia piece of it all.

However, it felt like the movie substituted substance (character development, coherent storytelling and plot continuation, etc.) for nostalgia? Like a washed up rock band coming back together for a one-night-only reunion show and trying to cram all of their biggest hits into a 2 hour, 20 minute runtime with a bit clumsy execution.

I think the first point that bothers me is the way that the logic/rules of the world that were established in S1 and onward just…don’t exist anymore. The wolfsbane being burnt out without needing the strain of wolfsbane that poisoned Scott. Peter Hale sniffing the ground like a dog (although ngl that was funny as fuck and I’m hoping? intentional) when werewolves can literally smell chemosignals from a good distance away, let alone blood. The nogitsune being Gerard who is already a werewolf, right? But also the nogitsune is not supposed to be able to be a fox and wolf? Also, Mr. Harris acquiring the jar for the Nogitsune from Liam and Hikari in Japan (how did it get there in the first place?), neither of whom he had ever met because he was presumed dead after s3?

I’m also really…confused about the repeated decision to introduce storylines without giving integral background information (or at least, a reason to give a fuck?) Parrish and Malia. Derek Hale having a son. Hikari and Liam in Japan. Gerard becoming a nogitsune.

Especially with Hikari…she’s like the first figure we see in the movie and yet by the end of it, I have no clue at all who she is as a person. Her and Liam (and MASON. What the hell.) are like cardboard cutouts with a button that you push to spit out occasional one-liners.* And I don’t understand the introduction of a new character when they’re essentially a nothing factor and have such limited, flat interactions with the existing cast. They let Eli Hale shine and become someone we root for. I want to care about Hikari! But I feel like I wasn’t given a reason to. I don’t know if the role was written for Kira and unchanged when Arden declined and was replaced, but it seemed like it was written as if we were automatically supposed to know, understand, and root for Hikari while essentially only knowing she’s a kitsune who is Liam’s love interest? and works at a ramen house with him. All her defining traits seemed to be about what she can offer to the plot rather than who she actually is.

Maybe I placed too many expectations on the ability to develop some of these things within the runtime of the movie…but I think if there’s an inability to make all of these plot points logical, some of them could’ve gotten cut. But, I’d really like to know other thoughts/feelings on the movie, though! Also I totally could’ve missed some things in the movie that would’ve alleviated some of my frustrations with it, but I dunno.

Positives! Oh babey I am so glad Theo fucking Raeken was not in that movie. Also the copious use of the word fuck was awesome lmfao. And I thought Eli was funny! (he’s, uh, very much like a Stiles Jr. but I have no comment on that). Also Finstock is Finstock which is cool. And thank the heavens for Alan Deaton. And the scene where Allison had to burn the wolfsbane out and having her mother over her shoulder as a callback to that one scene when she has to stitch up Scott was well done, I thought.

*on the note of characterization, I think I have this same gripe with a lot of characters in the movie. Jackson is essentially there just to keep Lydia company. Malia and Parrish are a thing because…reasons? Allison is undead after 15 years and working through amnesia and she’s somehow not that affected by it? (Yeah, she’s like, murderous and disoriented at first…but after realizing she’s been dead 15 years and remembering Scott she’s kinda fine?) Mason is just another familiar face on the police force. Derek seemed so UnDerek to me. And even after trying to rationalize that fatherhood changes a person, his timid ~just a father trying to do my best to raise my delinquent child of mysterious origins that I love very much~ just didn’t…work for me. Also HIM CHOOSING TO BURN TO DEATH IN FRONT OF HIS KID OMFG.

i was drawing OCs i have for my tnb spinoff and the lights flickered for literally 1 second and it was enough for my computer to turn off and i lost everything.

i am so devastated right now im sharing the heroes i have most finished. theyre more like pro wrestlers in a city in this continental area and the protagonist is abt to have a middle-age crisis way too early due to her fail and cringe life (turning thirty)

vitor ive posted before but here she is

the point is that her hero persona is a guy as well (he/him and all). but its marketing so she never sought to update him. she dgaf, just like she only has one lung left due to something that happened way prior but still smokes a pack a day.

silver flux is the mr.legend of this place kinda... except vitor is kind of nice. shes like the mentor character to the protag who has no idea vitor is silver flux bc silver flux is kind of a bitch and she doesnt understand why everyone lets him do all kinds of stunts (they have to compete with each other for points actively. pro wrestling style. Usually...). the protag definitely complains about silver flux to vitor who thinks its funny and is unbothered and goes like hah hes kind of a cunt isnt he

this place is corrupted as fuck by the way, even without ouroboros (though... ouroboros is there). anyway the sponsors... one of them is ryans sexy sister who is well more than a decade older than him and they really dont consider each other siblings bc of this and dysfunctional family structure. i fabricated her in a dream. she isnt married or anything she just has the surname of their father and ryan is named after their mothers surname (they believed in equality. not bc feminism but bc they work in finances and share finances equally. this includes children).

she looks a lot like ryan but nobody thinks about ryan but its not really relevant otherwise. they have entirely different names and vibes so nobody has ever connected the dots. ryan avoids this city like the plague as well, no reason lol (he hates remembering his sister exists who has done everything right in the eyes of everyone).

she has a NEXT power too (she can make objects heavy. like gravity increased specifically for singular objects) but its way weaker than ryans, though she never told anyone and didnt get it registered bc it wasnt strong enough for her to care and especially when ryan got his power she was like hm. never gonna let anyone know i didnt win the genetics lottery, this is just my secret tool that will help me later

i have so much lore for this city too i just didnt name it yet. and yeah the companies are named after colours in kinda tnb-style lol. ask me anything<3 except dont ask me why ryan has a sexy older sister she LITERALLY appeared to me in a dream in which she bullied ryan hardcore and entire family spoke italian except ryan who can only understand but not reply.

gianni is like. my ryan lore that breaks canon the most lmfao (i most often ignore this lore when i write abt ryan bc of this) bc idk kinda major to have a family member but on the other hand they also never really interacted. shes just like. a better ryan. to make sure he doesnt forget his place and develops some abandonment insecurities early on in his life. good for him!

tit for tat: the character from witch noir i'm most obsessed with right now is angel. he just sucks so bad, but at the last minute he decides to try really hard!! for love!!! he's a cancer sun pisces moon pisces rising he's so sad and pathetic and full of love. he cries big ghibli tears and changes reality through sheer force of he believes in it so hard. he can't drive and his best friend is a cat. and he looks like oscar isaac.

now you 🔁

thank you for doing this i’m also now???? obsessed with him. cancer x pisces baby he’s so TINY idk i’m holding him i am kissing on the head i am giving him hot chocolate 😭 i’d love to know more about him?? how does he suck? how does he manage to turn things around? what’s his cats name??? i need to knowww

(also he looks like oscar isaac? i’m 👀 looking)

i randomly get into moods for stuff so like earlier i was going through my google drive with all my nonsense and looked back over my stuff for NAD and man i wish this plot would better reveal itself to me bc i love these characters. so much!!!

NAD rn is an acronym placeholder title for the actual wip itself (hopefully it’ll name itself… one day…) standing for the 3 povs that the story’s gonna switch through.

N is for Nyseah Nicoletti. she’s a trans femme nurse who is so. fucking. tired. she’s so damn tired. let her sleep. in her 30s and works the midnight shift most nights of the week and hardly takes time for herself, chain smokes to keep the edge off of how tired and irritable she always is. she wants better for herself but like ? how. getting the boob job was hard enough lmao. anyway tho, she’s given a respite from her misery one rare night off and she decides (for once) to go out. gets all dressed up, goes to a bar and WOW? a handsome man is actually?? flirting with her???? this doesn’t happen every day, what’s the occasion? they end up going back to a motel, fuck, and then nyseah wakes up alone. everything’s cool… until she opens her left eye. then SUDDEN PAIN!!! (i posted that excerpt here but she’s not having a god time). and well, come to find out she’s psychic now. but not in a good way. in a if you even think about using your powers blood is pouring from your eye type of way. ends up meeting some “escaped experiment” kids that she immediately adopts who are able to help her but her whole story is kinda. revenge for this dude who fucked her over like this bc it’s definitely one-night-stand dude’s fault (and this ain’t just a funny like. he literally caused this lol,,)

A is for Alona. a sweet, little air headed but doing her best! college student in her early 20s. she picks up a job at the largest and most famous (infamous probably) company in the city as a part time secretary and is living the good life, or is trying to! her coworkers are a bit standoffish at times but she’s pretty chill with the whole thing until one day for the first time she’s asked to stay on for the night shift. that night goes well, but she notices what looks to be a trail of blood coming from one of the back rooms she’s told not to go into and while she doesn’t that night the thought doesn’t leave her mind. she just can’t help but want to know more? somethings not right and well. she’s curious! (let’s just hope the cat phrase doesn’t come to fruition shall we).

finally, D is for PI Donte MacBride, the oldest of the bunch in his mid 40s. he really should retire from doing pi work but he has no other prospects or savings, so he just lives out his days in his little rickety shop/turned upstairs apartment (since he lost the last real place he had), shooing away those with hopes of him facing the cruel justice system on their behalf. he won’t, not anymore, he’s done with that circus. and he’s all but stopped taking on cases too until one day a very. very famous guest decides to drop by; an actor known only by his first name leonine. he comes by to request his services, claiming its only for closure as per don’s policy: find out who killed recently killed rising star, the singer roxanne davis, one of his dearest friends. and he makes don a monetary offer he can’t refuse—one that would set him for the rest of his life. so… despite the red flags about touching this case going off in his head, don finds himself taking on one last case.

as you can probably guess, these three stories intersect and the three of them are going to meet and realize they’re all on the same path to… whatever the fuck is going on here. but !! i have yet to figure out truly what it is aside from lil bits and pieces. fjfjfj i’m sorry this was so long haha.

gap the series ep 1

finally got around to watching this!! and so far, v cute, pacing is far too slow but overall solid start.

sammon have incredible chemistry and i will sit through infinite 10-15 second walking shots for them to stare at each other for 30 seconds. it is worth it!!!

i too would fall in love with an older girl who saved me from a literal car by running right into it. v real.

the height difference!!

also, like, if you couldn't tell. the intimidating older woman vibes of sam are like, goddamn. yeah. could watch this show for that alone.

but i don't have to because mon is actually great! she speaks up and says what she wants and doesn't want and isn't a wilting maiden trope. i love her in contrast to sam's raze the earth while highly insecure vibes. they play off each other so well!

this was honestly just funny.

they are so good together!!! truly as long as they're both on the screen i can watch anything. (although i do need them to stop with the company/business talk because it hurts how little research has been done on that end of the spectrum wrt to how social media (what kind of company are they even?) companies function, but hopefully that'll die down soon)

she's so hot for this

the lighter/many many candles as a chekov's gun potential is also a fun little set up

i also am into the dichotomy they've shown between their home dynamics, and that neither is perfect but clearly mon's is more accepting all around. i'm looking forward to when sam tells her grandma to absolutely fuck off. (i need that to happen)

also, i mean, she's kind of hot for this

i love a good enemies to lovers office romance.

outside of the pacing (that dinner scene felt like houurs), honestly a pretty solid start to a standard office bl/gl premise. it looks like most of the players have been referenced, if not shown up. the set up of how they go from enemies to lovers, also set up. and now we get some good solid cute shenanigans until ep 10/11 when all the conflict has to break free lol.

Okay, I thought I would be able to put this one aside, but no, I’m going to complain.

Why the fuck is Charizard here?  No really, why?  The one good thing about Dexit was supposed to be that shit like this wouldn’t happen.  That because of limited dex capacity, we’d have a rotation of what was available in the game to use.  And yet, that’s clearly not the case.  It’s the same old favorites getting in again, and for some reason that includes Charizard, despite starters largely being disallowed.

Like, I get the Kantonian Dick-Sucking Contest never ends, but Christ almighty, we’re really kicking this off this early?  I actually had some positive feelings about this one in part because they hadn’t done shit like this, but apparently they were told not to make Charizard Geeta’s ace too and had to make it a major focus of the first raid encounter.  Frankly, Eevee’s on thin ice too.  I love the fox babies, but they’re constantly at the forefront too.  Then again, absolutely nothing of value has been given to the Eeveelutions in...ever.  Two of them got good Hidden Abilities for Gen 5, but by and large the Eeveelutions are garbage competitively, and have been given nothing to try and change that, unlike Charizard getting something every generation to try and make it work.  Charizard alone drives me up a wall, because it’s the known top fan favorite, and the company knows it and treats it like the favorite, for no reason.  Literally none.  It’s a mid-tier design at best, a boring as sin concept, and only popular because it was one of the originals and every had bad taste.  I’m just so sick of this thing.

And they even had the audacity to make it Dragon Tera Type.  Sure guys, we can’t make a new form with this gimmick so I guess the next best thing is giving it an automatic Tera Type outside of the regular.  Funny part is, I doubt Dragon is optimal.  Honestly you’d probably want Grass to hard-counter the obvious Water and Rock switch-ins, while also neatly answering Electric.  But more than that, you know what else gives you Dragon-type Charizard?  Mega Evolution.  You know, the only good gimmick you’ve produced this far?  I know I’m jumping the gun a bit, since we haven’t seen Terastellize in action yet, but I’m going to just go ahead and say it doesn’t actually make Beedrill or Lopunny usable so it’s clearly inferior.

God I am so sick of Charizard...