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donnerpartyofone · 2 months

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I feel like there's an epidemic of businesses trying to make customers and applicants do free data entry for them and it's driving me crazy.

I have complained many times about how seeing a doctor now involves checking in online, and then entering duplicate information into something else when you check in physically, and then answering duplicate questions once you're actually inside the exam room. Sometimes somebody addresses this in a humane way: "Sorry, we're using a new CMS and we have to do all this stuff from scratch," or "Sorry, we have to use these three different systems and they don't communicate with each other." Last time I went I did all this like research into my past appointments because I never ever remember off the cuff exactly what day I had this or that procedure, and I had every impression that the clinic was dependent on me to have all my medical records memorized...so I got in there and started rattling off information, and the nurse asked "When was your last mammogram?", and I gave her the date, and she looked at her monitor and said, "...yup, there it is!" Like WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT, IF IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU WHY ARE YOU QUIZZING ME ABOUT THIS, WHY IS THIS A TEST???

I actually asked about redundant check-in procedures on Quora of all places, figuring there had to be a few cantankerous cranks on there who could at least try to explain this to me, but there were absolutely no takers at all. As far as I can see, literally no one knows why this is happening, it's just The Way It Is.

But anyway. Now I'm having this experience with job applications where they request that you upload files for your resume and cover letter in specific formats...and then they direct you to this interface where you are made to transcribe every detail from the resume you just provided by hand, one field at a time. I've been confronted with this insanity when applying for jobs whose wages weren't even worth the mind-numbing exercise of the application process. And actually this is part of my point: Data entry is a JOB. I have had this job. I was paid to examine, reformat, and transcribe data, and upload it to a database for my company to search and cross-reference in the future. If you are an employer and you absolutely require BOTH a pdf of my resume and cover letter that a human being can read and evaluate, AND each piece of data from those documents individually entered into your database for some other form of storage and review, then it is seriously fucking Up to You to pay some wage slave to enter the data. I'm looking for a job. I'm not going to do a job for you for fucking free, in order to become eligible for a job that you might consider paying me for later. Like please don't call me a fucking idiot to my face--or at least, if it's the database part that's the most important thing to you, do not also require me to create a nicely-formatted document containing my history and intentions. Let's just get right to the forced data entry part, let's start this awful relationship from a place of honesty at the very fucking least.

N.B. I realize that there are multiple reasons an employer would do this to a person, ranging from algorithmic candidate-sorting to just having outdated-ass job site shit in place that they don't feel like reviewing or revising. I don't really care why it's happening, I just hate that it is. Recently I tried to apply for some $15/hr part-time job at a local museum that a caveman could do, and I stopped cold when I realized I had to transcribe every detail of the documents I just gave them into this bullshit backend website that looked like it was about a thousand years old. No Thank You. Currently I'm all worked up because I just applied to work at a hip, culty, local theater, and I was shocked that after completing the totally normal application routine, I received an automated email directing me to "complete your profile" as "an important part of the hiring process" on the website of the company they're outsourcing all their HR and billing stuff to. And I go look at the profile thingy, and of course it's just this needlessly complicated interface where I can individually enter each and every piece of information that I just provided in my resume--no more, no less. The theater has exactly two locations and is kind of a niche operation and it is absolutely crazy to me that they think they need to pay for this extra layer of stupidly bloated and redundant "talent acquisition" processing when they're hiring for like two or three basic ass hourly roles where half the question is going to be "have you done this normal shit before" and half will be "can we stand your personality". Nobody needs this garbage at all, least of all ME.

#there is some stuff out there that doesn't directly hurt anybody but that should be illegal anyway

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strawberrymilk-sunshine · 1 year

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OK, one more. I'm on a secret admirer thing right now. How about some head-cannons about the yandere vice-dorm leaders as a secret admirer.

Thank you!

Yes yes yes I can do that!

ALSO WAS ANYBODY GOING TO TELL ME THAT RUGGIE ISN'T THE VICE DORM LEADER OF SAVANNACLAW?! LIKE, I WAS SURE HE WAS, BUT I GUESS I WAS WRONG. (I'm adding him to this out of spite)

Warning(s): drugging, kidnapping, implications of wanting to injure the reader, mind control, accidental(?) gaslighting, stalking, Lilia's part might not be great because I genuinely had no idea what to do

Trey Clover

Trey would send you hand-made baked goods every day!

Often along with a short letter signed by "your secret admirer"

Along with the letters and baked goods, he also sends you flowers!

Of course, Trey is the first person you expect when your secret admirer's calling card so to say is sending you baked goods and flowers

But, luckily for him, he's good at throwing you off his trail. He'll send a few things that make you believe it could be someone else...

To be fair, you don't know many other people who attend NRC, maybe it is someone other than Trey.

As the days go on, the letters get... more intense.

It's clear this person, your secret admirer, wants you now.

Tonight, Trey's putting something special in the pastry he's making you

After you eat it, he'll visit you and bring you home with him.

"Morning, (Y/N). Did you have a good sleep? Did the pastry taste good? You know, I used a sprecial family recipe for tha- Huh? What's with that face? You don't have any reason to be shocked, I'm sure you knew this was going to happen, those letters I sent you did have a few red flags..."

Ruggie Bucchi

Ruggie would be very good at hiding his identity from you

I mean, don't you think a man like him would be good at keeping secrets?

Ruggie doesn't send you baked goods or flowers, or anything like that... he instead sends you stuff he either stole or bought with Leona's money.

Candies, jewels, food... anything Ruggie can find, he'll send to you (and keep a bit for himself, obviously)

Day after day, you'll be given these gifts... and you appreciate it so much, you wish you knew who was giving them to you!

You'll even tell Ruggie about it. You'll tell him you have some kind of secret admirer, and how they've been giving you lots of gifts, and how badly you wish you knew who was sending them so you could thank that person directly!

Ruggie smirks to himself when you say that.

"Should I tell 'em...? Nah, not yet. I'll let things keep playing out until they give hints that they actually like me. Shishishi! Won't that be fun? (Y/N)'s gonna be real shocked when they find out it's me giving 'em those gifts! Grammy likes them, so marriage won't be a problem... I'm sure the rest o' the family will love 'em too!"

Jade Leech

Jade's love letters are... special.

The letters are very hastily written, like whoever wrote it's life depended on it.

They talk about hurting you, doing these horrible things to you... whoever your secret admirer is, they have a very messed up mind.

Jade makes you believe you can go to him for support.

"That sounds terrible, (Y/N). But you have no reason to worry, you can always turn to Octavinelle for protection."

You continue receiving these threatening letters... they get worse every day.

When you start to actually feel unsafe, you remember how Jade told you that you can always go to Octavinelle for protection, and while you don't exactly want to go to them for protection... what other option do you have?

The moment Floyd sees the letter, he tells you the truth.

"Oh yeah, Jade wrote that."

Huh. Jade Leech wrote these threatening letters to you? Jade Leech, vice housewarden of Octavinelle... the dorm you're currently in? Uh oh.

"Dear me, I wasn't intending on revealing myself this soon... though I suppose I have no choice now. I was intending on building your trust towards me and once things have progressed enough, reveal that I was the author, then breaking you entirely so you love only me, but... I guess I'll have to construct another plan. (Y/N), this will only hurt for a second."

Jamil Viper

Jamil, much like Trey, sends you home-made food.

You like the food so much! Who knew having a secret admirer could be this fun?

Jamil is good at keeping himself hidden from you, he's also a patient person. He'll keep himself hidden for as long as is necessary.

Kalim often invites you to the parties he throws... though, strangely enough, whenever you arrive, he seems not to recall inviting you.

"Oh well! The more the merrier, you know? I'm sure Jamil won't mind making a bit more food for you!"

But Jamil never has to make more food for you. Almost like he knew you were coming even though Kalim didn't.

One day, you receive a letter.

Come meet me in Scarabia dorm's lounge. I'll be waiting for you. - Your secret admirer

When you go there, you find Kalim. Kalim, standing there, empty.

"(Y/N)... he's waiting for you."

You hear a whisper in your ear, and then you forfeit all control of your body to Scarabia's vice housewarden.

"I'm glad everything worked out in the end."

Rook Hunt

Oh Rook, where to begin with Rook?

He sends you love letters every day in the form of poems signed by "ton admirateur secret"

Due to the ecessive use of French, you have your suspicions as to who's sending you these

Vil is close to Rook, so you ask him about it, but...

"No, it can't be Rook. He only has that kind of fascination with the inhuman students, like the beastmen, fae, and what little merfolk we have here. He wouldn't send that to a typical, not to mention magicless, human like you. It must be someone else."

Having no other evidence, you just assume Vil's right, and Rook isn't sending you letters...

It drives you crazy

You're determined to find out who is sending these, you begin staying up several nights in a row, just reading these letters over and over and over again...

You can only come to the conclusion that it was Rook.

So you ask him about it one day and...

"Oui. It was I sending those letters to you. I assume this is you coming to accept my confession?"

Well, even if you try to run, you can't escape from Rook. Even if you do, you two attend the same school so he'll just keep stalking you...

"Hm? What was that, mon amour? You do accept? Merveilleux! Let's talk to the Headmage sometime tomorrow! We'll discuss you transferring to my dorm so we can be even closer- Quel? You say you don't want that? Oh, mon amour, you have no idea what you truly want."

Lilia Vanrouge

Lilia is a very sweet secret admirer

He hides the fact that he is, to put it lightly, obssesed with you amazingly well (the others could learn a thing or two from him...)

It's just cute love letters! No stalking implications, no dubious baked goods, no talking about hurting you, nothing, just genuine confessions of love from a secret admirer!

Lilia can't help but watch over you

And then, well... dead bodies start turning up at the school

Of course, the Headmage only cares about what this will do to the overall public image of NRC...

Lilia takes care of you, from a distance

Lilia shows up directly at your door one day. He hands you a sewing needle, and then disappears into nothing.

A sewing needle? Why?

Well... spinning wheels aren't exactly that common nowadays.

As you examine the sewing needle, you accidentally prick your finger on it...

The next thing you know, you're in Lilia's arms

"Ah, you're finally awake, my dear. Did you enjoy your hundred-year-long dream? No no, there's no reason to cry! I know this is hard for you to understand... I know you're scared and confused, but everything will turn out ok. I only did this for your sake. To protect you."

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outoutdamnspark · 1 year

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The Serpent and The Hound

Some purely self-indulgent OC stuff this time, set in the D&D world @psidontknow have going on together. (Technically this is an AU of an AU, but ehhhhh, I don’t feel like boring anybody with specifics. XD)

The Hound of the Emperor is the bad-end au version of my D&D character, Gibrahltar (”Lysiri”) Seventh-Star.

Xikist is the Snake God of Knowledge; he and ‘Sister,” “Brother,” and the “Nameless Sibling” belong to my bro-bro and are borrowed with love~

(CW: Hella Daddy Issues™️, regret, anger, emotional hurt-no-comfort. heavy/dark themes. references to past god murder. Snake Dad fucked up and now they’re both paying for it.)

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She sits, arms folded, staring daggers like the ones she used to carry at his back. He knows she's there, she knows he knows; he just won't turn around. She'd landed on his windowsill, in the office she can remember from her childhood - napping in his coils on the soft, soft carpet, stealing snacks with one brother to sneakily give to another, feeling loved and happy before it all went to shit and she closed her heart against the family that had apparently never let her into theirs. (And if they had, well, then they had a funny fucking way of showing it.) She'd landed, and she'd broken the lock with her bare hands and a spark of magic, pushed open the panes to climb inside. She'd stayed there then, cloaked in her spell of invisibility, not sure why she'd bothered in the first place when he'd know immediately where she was.

But she'd wanted to see what he'd do.

(Did she still mean nothing to him? Had she ever meant anything to begin with? Turn around, turn around, turn around, Father, turn around and LOOK AT ME.)

She'd kept the shield, the invisibility, up like a cover over a frightened child's head - though her heart was filled with anything but - until the sun had started its descent and the air had begun to cool.

And now, even as she drops it, he still doesn't turn.

Why had she even come here in the first place? She'd had no clue, still doesn't; maybe it was a kind of bitter nostalgia, a foolish wish to appease the rotting part of herself that longed for all of the pain of betrayal to have been nothing but a bad dream. To sever loose ends, maybe. She doesn't know.

She steps closer, footfalls muffled by the second spell enveloping her, the one she hasn't yet dropped, and comes to stand directly at his back, so close that should he turn his head he will touch her with his braid.

"Rancid viper," she hisses, a habit adopted as a child that she still cannot shake, a daughter wishing to emulate her Eniri, now a soulless Hound staked through with memories of a life that never truly existed. "Turn. Around." Her lips curl over her teeth. "Face your mistakes for once in your life."

He sighs, his shoulders slumping. He still doesn't turn, though his head tilts to the side, ear positioned now in her direction. "...I've made many mistakes in my lifetime," he says, and his voice fills her heart with both anger and childlike misery, pain and longing, until it overflows to fill her eyes with scalding tears. "You were never one of them."

"Liar," she rasps. She holds her volume low and it scratches at her throat on its way out, trying to be bigger than she allows it to be. "What was it you said to Sister after my second brother left? That you'd put too much time and effort into me to let me die just yet?" She spits to the side, onto one of his open journals resting beside the desk.

He glances at it, and she can see the frown tugging at the side of his face in profile. Regret, her heart wishes; distaste, her head rebuffs.

Ignorant of her thoughts, (though she wouldn't put it past him,) he lowers his head. His hands fold overtop the ledger in front of him, closing it and coming to rest daintily atop its leather cover. "...Words cannot express how many times I've wished I could undo having ever said that."

She laughs; a bark, mirthless, incredulous. "So that your experiment would have stayed where you could see it?"

"No."

Finally, he turns.

He pivots slowly in his chair, head lifting only after the rest of him has shifted in her direction. His eyes are the last thing to reach her, and even then do not fully meet her own.

His expression is slack, closed off as she'd expected, emotionless, with lips down turned at the corners and lids heavy. Gone is his usual smugness, the smirk that has fueled her anger for centuries, and in its place is… nothing. He is as hollow as she remembers him, and yet. He is not. The lines around his eyes are sad, tired, giving him the look of someone who is lost, resigned.

Sorrow, her heart wishes again; apathy, her head once again replies.

"No?" she prompts, demands, when he does not continue. Her eyes burn directly into his own, daring (beseeching) him to look at her properly.

He shakes his head. "No."

Her lips curl further, a bestial, canine snarl. The Hound growls. "Then why?"

His voice is an uncharacteristic whisper when he finally says, "Because it hurt you." He breathes. "Because it cost me my daughter."

She reels back as if struck, a cry of rage and anguish tearing from her throat. Instinctively, a knee-jerk reaction to pain, a substitution of violence so that nothing can touch her long enough to hurt, she reaches for the dragon-headed hilt at her side. With a fluid slice of her hand through the air she draws her sword and lets its tendrils dig into the flesh of her arm. Flames erupt from the mouth of the hilt, forming the blade of the ancient Dragon Buster Sword.

She holds it to his face, now a barrier, an extension of an arm's distance between them. "Fuck you," she hisses again, ignoring the way her voice and breath both catch. "Fuck you, fuck you. Call me that again and I'll take your venomous tongue."

The flames singe at the edges of his hair. He does not try to move away.

A horrible sound crawls its way up and out through her mouth, and it's impossible for her to tell through the ringing in her ears whether it's a sob or a strangled scream - a cry for blood or a plea for help. "Your daughter is downstairs," she accuses, tries and tries and tries not to think of the twisting feeling in her gut that she'd felt upon seeing the little fiendkind girl playing among the books - the feeling that persists as she pointedly does not look at the girl's drawings on the snake god's office walls. "I saw how easily you replaced me."

He sighs, shifting his gaze to finally see her, and for a moment she is thrown for a loop by the utter sadness with which he looks at her.

(She has the sudden, powerful urge to throw herself into his arms and sob, to cry into her father's dress like she did over a dozen lifetimes ago, and to beg every god that remains, every one she hasn’t hunted and slain as the Emperor's Hound, for a path back from the darkness she's allowed to swallow her up.)

She feels a single traitorous tear slip free, sliding down her cheek. She hides it behind another hateful snarl. Call the Hound and it shall come.

"Say something!"

He simply looks at her. "...What is there that I can?" he whispers. "The damage is already done." His gaze lowers to the sword fused into her arm. "...I'm so sorry, Lysiri."

She screams.

It is an ugly sound, one of torment and grief and years and years of both missing and hating her father; it rakes her voice raw and steals the warmth from her blood.

Xikist's desk smolders as the Dragon Buster slices it neatly in twain with a single, mournful swing.

She stands there, chest and shoulders heaving as she fights for control of herself. Her teeth are bared, a hunter's fangs, and her eyes clenched so tightly that behind her lids there are spots of light. Without looking at him - because she can't, not now, not right after her heart has overridden her hate - she pulls the sword free from the smoking wooden remains of the desk and summons the fire back into its hilt. The tendrils retract from her arm, but she keeps her hand gripped tightly inside. She turns her back to him then, and steps back towards the open window.

She pauses, just for a moment, with her hand on the windowpane. She doesn't look back at him as she spits a bile-flavored lie.

"The only reason you still breathe is because of your blood-tie with Sister," she tells him, and even to her own ears it sounds thin. "I will not take her life by taking yours." Her hand tightens on the windowpane. "Be grateful."

And before he can (or doesn't) respond, she leaps out the window into the desert air beyond.

She almost lets herself hit the ground before she bothers to open her wings.

#nobody hate xikist please T.T #he's an asshole and he's done shitty things but he's also Been Through It #(not my) oc xikist #oc gibrahltar seventh-star #d&d #psidontknow #pumpkin guts #juuuuust to be safe #spark writes

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maydays-medbay · 2 years

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Okay, real talk for a minute. Like, seriously. Something has come up recently that I want to talk about, that doesn't relate to transformers. It's directly affecting me and countless others, and I feel like I should address a few things that I've seen floating around since the word has started spreading.

Some trigger warnings, for those who need them. Don't feel obligated to read this if these mentions will do more harm than good. Mentions of Death, the d/smp, mcyt, cancer, ableism, lots of cursing, ranting/venting and seriously shitty behavior from some people.

So for those who don't know, very recently, it was announced that Minecraft Youtuber Technoblade has passed away from his battle with stage 4 cancer. He was loved by many, many people - myself included.

Words can't even begin to express how much this news has impacted me, and I can't even begin to think about how hard this is for his family. It's a tragedy, he was young and seemed like such a kind and caring individual. Genuinely caring about his fans, and for those who were close to him. Everyone has my sincerest condolences.

I still haven't fully processed that he's gone. It hurts to think that one of my biggest inspirations, and one of the few people who kept me going during quarantine is gone, and yet he is. He is and it's awful. I'm hoping that somehow writing all of this down and venting a little helps in some way. Technoblade was probably the one person that always brightened up my day if it wasn't going how I'd planned.

Sure, maybe he was associated with iffy individuals. I never really cared for the d/smp either, personally (except for maybe one or two individuals that don't seem problematic but I won't get into that here). Even still, that never gives anyone the right to make jokes about cancer, or believe that this is some kind of twisted, fucked up, divine punishment - all because you hate the people he surrounded himself with.

Kindly, grow the fuck up. You can have your opinions, but don't let them cover up the fact that another person was lost to a debilitating illness. That someone died.

Nobody should ever have to go through what he and his family have. Nobody should have to experience that kind of loss. Let people fucking grieve the loss of their inspiration, friend, family member, brother, son; no matter how they related to Techno, let them mourn.

Cancer isn't a joke. It's not funny. It's not okay to want that on anybody. Even if you don't support the d/smp, have some dignity to not go around and act like it's something to celebrate. It's not. He was a human being who had his life taken away from him by a terminal illness. That is never something you can joke or be happy about. Ever.

I've had many family members with cancer. It's a horrible thing to have to experience, even if you aren't the person directly affected. Every time it plagues my family, it haunts me too. My mental and physical health suffer. Like some kind of entity is constantly at my throat. I go into a state of constant worry and panic. Hell, I am petrified when I know that someone close to me is suffering. I can't say that I know how others feel, because I don't, and cannot claim that I do, but I know how this is affecting me and it's not "okay" by any stretch of the imagination.

Knowing that some people out there poke fun at this kind of shit has me livid. What kind of morality do you have where you think it's okay to laugh about this kind of illness/disability? To laugh at someone's passing, ESPECIALLY when it's about something outside of their control? It's not only a shitty thing to do, it's a horrendous thing to do.

Don't even get me started on the "_____ deserved it" shit. That's honestly disgusting. It makes me sick knowing that some people are doing stuff similar to this right now, as I am typing, because of some personal vendetta against him and the d/smp. Fuck you. No, seriously, fuck you if you do this kind of shit.

Even if you hate the d/smp with a passion, or didn't really like Technoblade, then have the most basic form of respect for the guy who passed away. It's the best thing you can do.

If you want to reblog this to spread the word, or opinions on the matter, please do. This is really important shit that people need to understand, because this isn't okay. Just, please don't start fights or arguments or anything.

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autisticsimonpetrikov · 29 days

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Just a really awful time lately.

I have bad allergies and haven't slept well in a while. I can't even choose my sleep schedule in general. Ever since my sister and dad changed their shift to a late one (they come home at 12 am and my sister keeps me up till 3 am). I really want to sleep earlier and wake up early because that's what I enjoy and prefer.

Since my favorite shirt went bad I just can't find anything to replace it :( I really don't like outside clothes in general. I hate getting dressed and I don't even have clothes I like style-wise or comfort-wise. I am not even sure how I should be dressing for different occasions.

I am taking a class for the spring, but it's really not worth it. With no aid (because I'm non-matriculate), it's a lot of money for just one class that doesn't really serve me any good other than keeping busy and hopefully to get a letter of recommendation from the professor. Honestly, I really just don't want to put up with anything and I'm already not looking forward to group work at all. Any faith or respect I have for my peers has been obliterated already, so I just really don't even want to look at anybody.

I feel like I am overall sick of the house we live in and of living with my family to. I put up with a lot last month and it still just hurt me and think any good time we have is transient because they'll again just explode with some anger or issue again. Also time and time again they just all treat me like a joke and keep on going with some bit. They all literally join in on a joke at my expense and keeping going and going and repeating it while I'm obviously not amused and I'm sick of it. Maybe I could handle it, but again, how they act sometimes has me sick. Why am I supposed to not get mad or upset and just put up with them directly bothering me, but when they are upset at something like work or each other (not me or anything I did) they are allowed to scream at me for just happening to exist ?

My mom was annoyed late February at my sister and she took it out on me because I'm at home all day with her. She left with her friends to do a hike and afterwards ate somewhere. When she got home around 5 pm and then slept in the living room and I haven't eaten since the morning (nothing to eat at home or cook and I have no car and am not allowed to drive). I went to the kitchen in the dark looking through the fridge and decided to eat a frozen meal and I had to poke holes through the wrapper and put in the microwave. It was loud and I felt bad, but she angrily yells at me for making a lot of noise. It didn't even heat up fully and was partially cold and I decided I rather eat it like that then go back to the kitchen to use the microwave again.

My sister just decided to more-or-less fake having problems by making a dramatic scene a month ago, and the weeks leading up to that point she was incredibly rude. I feel like she acts up sometimes just to have a "reason" to seek therapy and get a diagnosis for whatever (she's done this a couple of times).

I haven't even talked about stuff relating to career choice, but I hate how quickly it has become spring again. Applications open again in late May and i have so far done nothing. But I just feel that defeated and honestly incapable of pleasing the system in place here.

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kharmii · 2 years

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(TW: mentions of pedophilia and good old 'antis being antis'.)

Honestly, incest is the lesser of two evils when it comes to proshipping, (the other being justified romanticizing/sexualization of minors, for the love of God please don't tell me you believe that's ok as well...) but It would still be looked down upon if someone found it on your computer/phone, so I recommend deleting any traces of it and turning a new leaf before it gets you or someone else fired from their job...

Yeah shipping incest doesn't hurt anyone directly. Not every slasher fan is gonna become a serial killer, so not every pro shipper will become a molester. (I know antis can be rough but some of em are being kinda unrealistic for believing stuff like that.)

And yeah, the characters portrayed in these illegal scenarios ain't real, but encouraging it, and other people to ship 'problematic' content is gonna do a shit ton of damage to people's lives if word about that side to them spread.

This is why I'm concerned about it on this site, sure, thinking two brothers should bone won't end the world, but if proshippers continue to push that there is nothing about their actions to be frowned upon, people are gonna end up behind bars for distributing child porn.

I saw a case of it yesterday, someone was hella concerned that the authorities would find their nsfw art of a character that is a canon minor. My brother in Christ, if you didn't want to go to jail for making and distributing pornogrophy of a minor you shouldn't have done it in the first place.

Buuut who am I to think about the future anyway? Most proshippers are a bunch of kids who were left on their mom's iPads too long who won't care about the consequences until it hits them like a wet fish in a few years, I just hope the point I'm making gets through the thick skulls of a few before that happens.

-obligatory anti anon

Credit to うるお @uruo_new Twitter.

*Emmet whispers to Ingo* ...It isn't illegal. Sure, we'd lose a couple friends if someone found out, but it's not on the level of pedophilia or murder nsfw.

Aaaaand it's not real. It's cartoons. People can draw cartoons of just about anything...rape, murder, cannibalism, just so long as it's not Muhammad it won't get them killed. Personally, I'm comfortable with myself and my idiosyncrasies, so if anybody found this kind of thing on my phone irl, I'd guarantee that there'd be a room full of uncomfortable people, and the only one who wouldn't be.....would be me.

BTW....blankshipping doesn't automatically have to be seen as dirty. Maybe they are asexual life partners. Maybe they just like to give each other backrubs. If they're autistic, maybe they like to stim by licking each others ears. People draw them in bed together. Maybe they're just like an old married couple who do everything but that one thing that old married couples don't bother with anymore. -But if people want to imagine them like two rabid obstagoons in the sack, that's perfectly okay too. Chill. Damn...

Credit for artwork to Sasi시호찌 @sasi_mozzi1 on Twitter.

#blankshipping #troll post #srsly tho #forbidden love #hurrrrr

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bettsfic · 4 years

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Re. the last grad school ask -- I started my PhD program (humanities, not creative writing) directly out of undergrad and am in the strong minority in my program. Most people come in from other careers, or other degrees, and are at least in their mid-20s.

And I tell all the prospective students I talk to how much I wish I'd waited a few years.

I was so young. I didn't understand what grad school was (we didn't HAVE grad students at my small liberal arts college!) or what the training was supposed to lead to.

I'm in a program with excellent funding (and I talk for days about the kind of funding that makes a humanities program worthwhile and when somebody should say "nope not worth it), with supportive faculty and students, and with relatively light teaching obligations. But even with all the things that make my PhD a good thing to be doing *right now* ... The 21-year old me who was applying was so clueless.

Things I wish I had known:

- the PhD is training me to be a professor and researcher. Full stop. But. Academia is broken. There are very few jobs in my field, and a lot of people are deeply, psychicly hurt pursing them. The PhD, even from a great program with a good placement rate, is not a guarantee.

- so most of us will spend 5-6 years in a training program for a job we won't get. Making some money, but not necessarily CAREER money.

- sure! there are lots of other jobs out there that people with PhDs move into. But you don't NEED a humanities PhD for most of them. And so I'll have spent 7 years that I could have been getting job experience and professional networks on a degree that I didn't REALLY need in the first place.

And again, for me, those are 7 years I've been well-funded and have enjoyed. I've grown a lot! I don't necessarily want to discourage people from taking a funded PhD that could be relative security for 5+ years, with health coverage and intellectual engagement. It can be a very good thing to do! But a good thing to do if you understand what it is and how jobs work ... which, at 21, I absolutely did not!

And it took me a lot longer to get started on my project than my colleagues who came in having explored and thought for longer. I just didn't know what I wanted to do! I didn't have the social confidence or knowledge to ASK for things. The time I spent figuring things out was time many of my colleagues spent actively publishing and presenting, because they'd already done the figuring.

3, 4, 5 years in the non-academic world working, earning an income, experiencing different settings... would have set me up to be "successful" (or at least more confident) so much faster. (and I also have a lot of things to say about performative academic confidence... but OH BOY I so appreciate people who have had time to develop a value system and bullshit radar OUTSIDE of the academy because they can cut right through a lot of nonsense. I had to work in different ways to ground myself and think about my take on Impostor Syndrome and about how the kind of PERSON I want to be is not always modelled by scholars in a tenure rat race).

So that's long and rambly. But I think is mostly affirming how much I agree with your assessment -- find the right fit, because a program with a culture that will make you happy is one that will appreciate and benefit from your life experience. There are about 80 millions different paths to grad school (and there have been some lovely Twitter threads recently about "age at PhD").

But from somebody who didn't take that time, who will get the PhD before 30 and then have to figure out non-academic stuff for the first time... well, that different life experience would have been valuable on so many levels, before, during, and after my program. I wish I'd had it and I hope it doesn't make anybody feel like they don't have a place in grad school!

first of all, WHEN did tumblr increase the word limit on asks?? this is great!

second of all, thank you so much for sharing your story! i think in some ways undergrad tends to teach students how to be work machines, and you can’t have that kind of mentality in grad school. i took years to train myself out of the bad habits i’d developed in undergrad, particularly around project-oriented productivity versus consistent maintenance. and by that i mean, when you’re a student, you’re used to working 200% for 15 weeks a stretch, getting a grade for your efforts, and then taking a break. but in the working world, you don’t get that (unless you’re in project management or another similar field). you have to do the same things over and over, forever, and you don’t get a grade at the end. in fact you don’t get anything usually. your prize is keeping your job. for ambitious students whose identities pivot on grades, the working world can be really crushing.

also, yeah, the job market. it’s abysmal and depressing to think about. there are writers i know who have done everything right -- published widely and to acclaim, been great literary citizens, have pedagogically sound practices, did a prestigious mfa and phd -- and they were still on the job market for years, and applied to hundreds of jobs. i know more writers who have quit trying to find jobs in academia than who have successfully secured them. obvs a different field with different professional expectations, but the shittiness is still there.

#the writing life #grad school tho #logicaldaydream

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the-firebird69 · 2 years

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It seems that Tommy favino doesn't want to make any kind of deal with anybody about anything for anyone for any reason at any time that's the sign he has stuff that's what we're saying tons of stuff tons of other people stuff he's a killer he's going around killing people is also a big f**** I caught him up in the Jersey shore and Trump was going after him and said I know about him and that was it so he knows it's dangerous is a huge f**** and there are treatments up there for f***** and New Jersey shore the mob is starting to go after him. At some point BG made a report about cas mom so tell me if you know him go up there do this movie The King of Staten Island and all of a sudden cuz people started attacking DG no they start looking at Tommy favino like he's a huge a****** this guy has nobody and just sitting here breathing for no reason so we're going after you there's a little internal struggle going on to shut him up doesn't seem to get it so he's going to get very hurt

I brought suit against savino and we're doing it all over the world and people are opposing it a little but not that much they should be cuz he probably has the keys and we're going after him heavy because he's right there in his car right up there all the time got his way hundreds of times today and all sudden he broke it by telling you about the New Jersey Offspring again and Hera stung them pretty good and it's working started falling to pieces because that one spot so really need to know what that was and I'm sure Hera knows she's probably going to tell you. It's kind of like this she says we went up there and he pointed out where they are and they started streaming in there and stopped bothering my husband and stop threatening and stop doing their work they're still doing it and tons of my occupied doing it and they're doing it all over the place because it's an insult because it's right in their place and their territory he didn't really know that he's just like firing away trying to hit this idiot and didn't know it's like really concentrated coming from him so now we know what to do is to announce where they are in this idiots place Hera says and that's really what it is it's his territory so he's putting tons of effort into it.

BG did run up there and he said this is hell these people are nuts and other people you heard CAA it's him and he's just Jersey shore f**** and he got to get out of there so he left real quick and he figured out his followed and people are knocking him out to get the stuff it's a good job being a runner it's horrible but it's good since we should like make some small boats no you should be in the smuggling ring I did it at UMass illegal stuff and it was not for my people directly it was because I was being an idiot and I learned about drugs and the feeling in the sensations it was important and I learned about money and the violence and taught our people but it wasn't supposed to be me teaching it it was valuable because they use it as an excuse for tons of stuff it's a huge basketball player just walk right in they've been all over had you not said what you did said get out of here you're going to get beat up and he'll speed up by who I should be by me maybe he left other people say by all sorts of people so the basketball players back then were aggressive people nowadays they get pushed around by all these little people that's not why but it didn't help them so the other people don't do it to him but here's the point we're going up to the Jersey shore and we're going to wear on this idiots and wherever else is headquarters I can't stand a little puss wide Thor Freya

We got done and dirty and started suing the crap out of them and brought him into federal court and we're going to arrest him over and over tons of people are arresting all those guys we're getting information but bring them to our prisons we'll bring him to Max prisons the prison system in America all over the world these people are getting arrested they going to turn around and do it to these guys and they're going to try and do it to our son which is your main goal but with these Offspring we have a chance now

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(part 1)with all this elounor talk- i just needed to rant: i know people get upset at the prospect of louis closeting himself but literally think of ALL the reasons he would 1) he might not be comfortable enough yet to come out 2) maybe he worries he'll lose friends if he comes out 3) maybe he's scared of hurting or disappointing his family (even though we know they'd be supportive). 4) maybe he's scared he'd lose fans 5) he doesn't wanna get bullied or harassed or assaulted by homophobes

(part 2) he's been told since he was a teen coming out would harm his career 7) he's going to automatically implicate harry and larry and then it involves other people 8) he's just not ready! coming out is an extremely personal journey to the individual and nobody should force or shame anyone into doing it. i believe he will some day but until then, people (AKA straight people) should be more understanding of his situation. he's not just anybody, he's a celebrity with loads of pressure on him!

ehhh i agree with what you said at the end completely, but i dont think hes closeting himself. some of these definitely make sense considering the situation (imo six, seven, eight the most, but also four and five, and three slightly... considering some people dont think he came out to his entire family until 2014). as much as he can be, hes supportive of the lgbt+ community, points posters out at concerts, etc. he has the triangle tattoo, etc. i definitely think hes proud of his sexuality and ready to come out. like if he was self closeting, he would.. put more effort in. he really just seems tired of everything stunt related like he does the absolute minimum. i think its easy to see but!

i definitely agree with the end though that really nobody knows how exactly he feels(the straight larries have the least room to talk about closets and lgbt+ issues lmaosdhhsd but really none of us have room to talk about his closet specifically i guess) and we should never ever do anything thats even remotely similar to outing. which i think a lot of people need to learn. theres a lot of (straight) larries that like.. make it their life goal for larry to come out, and theyre constantly talking about them as a couple on like public social media, like theyll mention people saying that. and thats extremely harmful. even if it such a small chance people will see it, its still outing. and if they arent ready to come out, then its even more harmful. and really, that could be a reason they wouldnt come out as well, because of stuff like that, and if they arent comfortable, y’know. the fact that hes a celebrity goes to both sides, like whether hes ready to come out or not, there could be pressure to stay in or come out. but anyway thats why im like, just here for louis, i have my thoughts about his sexuality and i headcanon him with people but i would never directly say that to him, like..

#i feel like people cant read so let me specify again #i do think louis is ready to come out :)#im just considering possibilities and having a civilized conversation #try it! lmao anyway #anonymous #ask

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(Gary anon) I felt for the longest time since Journeys started that if Gary was brought back, he'd stir things up. Especially if he reoccurred, and now we're seeing the calm before the storm. Well, storm before the hurricane. xD (Ash, Gary and Goh acting like misfit brothers is a wonderful dynamic, the first two tag-teaming so Cinderace didn't get hurt was cool. Hope Gary keeps his dynamics between the two balanced. Besides being support, Ash doesn't really have an excuse to be

(Part Deux) in Project Mew, thus could get sidelined. If Gary at least has more casual scenes with him or helps him with PWC while he's around, probably won't be jarring. It'd be a massive waste for this new turn in their friendship to only be one episode) It's the sad life of loving "obscure" characters, especially if they were once prominent. From what I heard, it's due to his VA apparently being high-profile, which means expensive. (Iris' VA shot up after BW, but she at least

(Part 3) still does stuff with Pokemon. Tracey's hasn't done anything near this franchise since him. (If you came for just Infernape, yeah not the best showcasing. Maybe something better for it turns up later. (It is, some languages actually become "easier" to decipher once you understand certain linguistics) I never saw him as the type to stay stuck in lab; field work is his alley. It's interesting how they had him bounce around from fossils, to a nature preserve,

(Part 4) to fighting Team Galactic, now Project Mew. His goal is as big as Ash's in a way. (Him and Ash didn't discuss the PWC, wonder if that will turn up later) Considering what he's aiming for it makes sense, he actually goes on a tangent on how he was able to find Infernape, but also accurately track where Moltres was going to be. (Likely out of respect because of sharing the title, the dub never carried it over when it first did it or onward. We'll see what happens in September) (Part 5) There are better subs out now, grab them while they're hot. (Wonder how Carter is gonna feel having to tap into OS Gary again) It's possible his episodes weren't scripted yet. If the photo of her and Rika is anything to go by, recording started a month after the OP. In the interview, she's very happy to be back with Gary and take on a new direction. Apparently the scene where Ash and Gary walk and catch up was also an al-lib on her and Rika's part. Umbreon is her favorite Gary Pokemon)

Yeah, Gary's return has already created quite a stir and I'm eager to see how things go from here. JN069 is looking like just a cute filler episode (which is fine, I don't mind cute filler episodes by any means especially after a big event like this episode was) but I wonder when we're going to hear from him next.

Their whole group dynamic is looking like it'll be really good. I loved that moment--that brief eye contact between Ash and Gary before they both acted to protect Cinderace was so good, how in sync they were really showed their closeness. Really excited to see their future interactions.

Yeah, Ash probably won't be too directly involved in Project Mew, but if there's a good balance between it and the PWC stuff it should be fine. Hoping the writers will make use of the opportunity to show how Ash and Gary's relationship has progressed.

I miss Tracey so much. That makes sense though, I really wasn't aware of it--being almost exclusively a dub watcher with Pokemon I don't know a whole lot about the Japanese cast (aside from knowing James shares his Japanese VA with Roy Mustang), so I guess I was thinking more from the dub perspective (where hilariously, Tracey had the same English VA as Giovanni in both dubs--Ted Lewis and Craig Blair really said I can be your angel or your devil). I guess it can't really be helped in that case :/

Yeah, hopefully. I know some people were disappointed by that.

Linguistics really are interesting. As someone whose native language is English I find it fascinating how other languages actually like... make sense once you figure out their phonetics and grammar rules and stuff.

Yeah, Gary definitely seems like the restless type. I imagine he deliberately goes for options that allow him to roam at least a little bit, presumably because even though he decided gyms and leagues weren't the right path for him he still enjoyed the traveling aspect of his time as a trainer. I feel like he might be able to stick around a lab for like a week tops before he started getting restless, so fieldwork is definitely what's right for him.

It is interesting how in his time as a researcher he's done all these different things--I like the idea that his ambition coupled with curiosity leads him to just want to learn a bunch of different things in different fields, of course leading to this big goal of straight-up wanting to research every single Pokemon including Mew itself. (I wonder if he's ever going to get to figure out what the armored murderbeast that completely wrecked him in the Viridian Gym was, like, does he know about Mewtwo? Has anybody told him anything? I think about this so much.)

That does make sense from a practical standpoint, yeah, but I also just find the thought of him keeping tabs on Ash's Pokemon Specifically very cute. It's definitely a good thing he was if that's what led them to Infernape and Moltres.

That makes sense, yeah. If the dub's never carried it over before (and I know in the dub, Gary has only ever called his grandfather Professor Oak while referring to him like "my grandfather, Professor Oak" and never while addressing him) it probably will continue to not do that, but I guess only time will tell.

I'll have to go looking for them then! Though I'm also very eager for the dub to do its thing. I do wonder how Carter will do--Gary was always easily his best role in the past but it's been a long while, I hope he's still got it.

That makes sense! I'm glad Yuko is enjoying being back in the role, she's so good at voicing him.

Oh, that's cute. I love that.

She has good taste, Umbreon is definitely one of the best Gary 'mon (and also my personal favorite).

#Andrew answers #Gary anon #JN068 spoilers

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