The Fall - Nine out of Ten

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Healing Inergy – inward energy and recovery

Many things vie for my time. There’s not always enough time to turn inward. Inward Home I still have a day job. My “home” work is deeply important to me as well. These inform my inner life constantly. My spouse, our dog, our home, and our neighborhood all receive my daily attention. Whether walking RB, […]

i have a special place in my heart for "show don't tell" storytelling, especially in comic books. comics are a visual medium!

Crowdsourcing a question

Okay totally personal post here because, now that search engines suck, my research is failing me. So I'm crowdsourcing my question about the residential care work industry!

Hoping at least some of my followers have experience in/with the industry and some intel on this:

Actual question: How common is it for jobs in residential care work (residential centers, btw, not home care) to actually have two people on the night shift? vs. just saying they always have two people on the night shift in interviews and their official policies, and actually it's not true?

Because my current job was, it turns out, apparently totally lying about "you'll never be on shift alone with clients" at orientation (when it comes to the night shift, anyway). Which, holy fucking safety issues, Batman!

Suffice to say this was a very fun thing to find out like three days before my first regular shift

So, I'm thinking realllll hard about switching companies, and I'm trying to figure out if I could expect to actually have a coworker at a different company, or if it's like an open secret in the field that actually, basically all the night shifts end up being solo shifts, because the industry is so chronically understaffed or w/e

Every fandom gets a middle age. It's not defined by time. It's defined by the emergence of fics and art that explore hugely divergent What Ifs.

It's a growing rejection of the ironclad This Is How xyz Character Is, and a desire to explore something new. Maybe an idea that was always secretly thought about, but no one was confident enough before to risk.

A fandom's middle age is when there begins to be a shift away from 'But Canon?!' to 'What Canon.'

If a fandom can get through the initial need to keep replicating the same version of Canon (or as is more often the case, Fanon), this middle age often produces more interesting and dynamic and nuanced creations.

real-life adulting, man. i'm still my ex's emergency contact 6.5 years after we broke up and he just gave me his new girlfriend's phone number so that i can contact her if something happens to him. this is in lieu of making her his emergency contact, which may seem like it would make more sense, except that he hasn't told his parents about her. so i get to be the emergency contact who then would contact both the girlfriend and the parents. this all makes total sense to me despite the fact that i don't even live in his city. it's whatever! we've known each other a long time!!

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A chapter a day!

Chapter 10/525

As I now read that the state or federal government intentionally murdered dozens of people with a wildfire in Hawaii, I am once again wondering whether there is such a thing as a natural disaster or a genuine catastrophe in the minds of terminally online people who think everything was done by Them

And like

Every single time? Nothing bad has ever just happened? And it’s never incompetence or neglect? It’s always malice? It’s always because They planned it?

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y'all guess what showed up

How thrilling. My plan is to read it as soon as I make myself a cup of tea. Once I've finished my first read through, I'll write a post about initial thoughts/reactions to everything that'll include spoilers, and my rating. Then I'll write an actual in-depth "I read it so you don't have to" review.

I don't really have any expectations going into this, other than hoping it's at least better than Book One. I'm feeling pretty lukewarm, which is already a different mindset compared to how I went into Book One.

If you've read it and have thoughts, feel free to send in an ask. I won't be looking at them until after I've finished so don't worry about spoiling anything for me.

Alright, off I go~

the events at totentanz so far ( ft. @enypneon 🩶 )

The Fall's "New Facts Emerge" artwork, by Pamela Vander, © 2017.

Going from seeing barely any art of Darnell x Pico to seeing it everyday for the past 3 weeks has been amazing for me. I’m really glad more people are shipping them now, and seeing all their art and head canons for this duo has been pretty motivational for me. Seeing them obsessing over them to the point where they’re burning the wiki into their minds, and playing any mod they can get their hands on with these two was also great. It’s like a dream come true for me.

meta videogame bullshit my beloved

ngl reddit breaking this story hours before the actual news outlets did is kinda insane lol

「Verse added for The Reader, HSR au!」

An Ambassador from a faraway small planet that no one paid much heed to with no stars in its galaxy. An exploration ship that got blown off course made first contact with the planet and the citizens of the Sahrian Union, a civilization very behind in technological advancement in comparison to the rest of the galaxy, yet had many fantastical and seemingly magical aspects the exploration ship had never even fathomed before.

The Sahrian Union who was still a budding new country and the other countries on the planet were still in an unstable state. They did not wish for many visitors or outside interference while the planet was still healing from the tyrannical reign of the Commonwealth. However, a cultural exchange and exchange of knowledge and history was permitted. Though the prospect of space exploration was much too daunting for the citizens of the Sahrian Union. The one only known as The Reader whose thirst for knowledge and continual learning knows no bounds volunteered to go and learn all they could about the faraway places the people of the exploration ship spoke of.

While much of this space-faring world still confuses the Reader they wish to learn all they can so their home may one day become allies with the as many galactic civilizations as possible, for they will certainly need as many friends as they can get when they do eventually start reaching out to these new stars. They often act as a translator for their homeworld as many still only speak Sahrian and are illiterate.