found a channel that talks about urban planning and transit in sydney

this time of year I always remember how several years ago when I was working at Bath and Bodyworks, I put in my typical holiday time off request. I was living in Ohio at the time and my entire family aside from my parents are in Pennsylvania. We ALWAYS went back to PA for Christmas. But for whatever reason this year my manager did not approve my time off, and told me I just couldn't be spared and needed to work Christmas eve. I don't think that was the year I quit I'm pretty sure it was the year after, so I kind of just said oh okay and went back to work feeling like I was just PUNCHED IN THE GUT. Now at the time my dad also was working retail (bc of a shitty corporate thing that happened at his job that he had for longer than I was alive but thats a different story) and he was also told he was not allowed to have Christmas eve off. So thankfully I wasn't the only reason we didn't get to see our family that Christmas but HOW FUCKING SHITTY IS THAT. How insidious is it to say 'oh you have family elsewhere that you would like to be with? Oh, too bad, people need to buy soap at the last minute and for whatever reason we can't just have the specific holiday hires here, we need YOU here specifically sorry no family time for you.' Like we as a society need to do better because what the fuck.

you mean the endocs around here are booked until june at the absolute best but the place i called in paris offered me an appointment TODAY????????????????????

Yesterday while chay was telling phil about qtubbo a lot of the chat was calling him bipolar or mentioning other mental disorders, i just want to remind the crows that tubbo himself said not to do that because its insensitive to people who actually struggle with those

man i'm on a roll tonight

DP x DC idea:

Bruce Wayne has somehow managed to become the unofficial guardian of at least two more kids. Maybe three. He's not sure yet. Various members of the Batfamily have made new friends recently and have been having them hang out at Wayne manor for extensive periods of time. Now only if he could actually meet the rascals face-to-face, maybe he could adopt them for real.

or

Danny, Elle, and Jazz have all made friends with different Wayne kids at different times from different places. Damian met Elle at school, Danny met Tim while working at a coffee shop, and Jazz met Cass outside the local theater. All three visit the manor separately, and no one communicates that they've befriended people from the same family. Eventually, however, their hangout sessions accidentally overlap and the Waynes have to deal with the excitement of three Fentons under a single roof.

Let's just say there's a reason the three of them live separately.

It's soo telling that Halt (a prince-become-ranger who will die if he's alone for 2 minutes) saw Will having a hard time with the death of Alyss and Maddie being a little snotty/bratty and immediately thought "you know what would work?

Ranger training"

@tophatz asked: (( I cannot for the life of me see the emoji but that HUG thing and yes, you guessed it, from one insane thief @ Hyde. May he rip. ))

THE INSTINCTUAL URGE to shove Marque away was quickly suppressed despite Hyde’s DISGUST at the physical contact. He’d warned him. He’d fucking WARNED him. He should’ve suspected Marque wouldn’t take him seriously.

This little thing that had been happening between them? This… FRIENDSHIP? Maybe it had run its course.

What a shame. Hyde REALLY didn’t want to get blood on this shirt.

Instead of pushing him away, Hyde simply reached into his back pocket, pulling out a knife. And just as quickly, he RETURNED THE EMBRACE, making his grip as tight as possible to keep Marque in place in his arms. He wanted a hug? Fine.

“Stay RIGHT there.” His voice dropped with malevolence, a small smirk coming across his face. And yet, the dagger in his hand, SHARP BLADE GLEAMING, never plunged into flesh. Instead, with his free hand, Hyde grabbed Marque’s hair, giving it a FIRM TUG so his head was tilted backwards. The other hand pressed the blade up against the side of his neck, cold and calculating, but never quite cutting into the skin.

He could’ve killed him right then and there without a warning or a chance for him to get away. Why he didn’t, he had NO IDEA.

It's interesting to think about Master and Commander because it was clearly meant to work as a standalone book, which gives it a lot of curious little features when you compare it to later books, but none more than the fact that James Dillon was literally like a third main character there, and he brings out very specific dynamics with Jack and Stephen which none of the later books can ever quite get at. Like I genuinely believe that if there had not been a series, Dillon would have been a central character to all of our discussions, but as it is he's sort of faded into obscurity. Which is a shame, because he's really interesting, and one of the aspects of that book which is so fascinating is him and Stephen dealing with the fallout of the failed Irish Rebellion—the where-do-we-go-from-here, the fact that both of them are so completely politically incompatable in all other ways and now there's nothing to unite them, Stephen's idealism crashing into semi-ambivalence versus Dillon's fierce and continued belief (which is an interesting role reversal given their political stances otherwise), the weird camaraderie/animosity that exists between them, and so on—and I think that we never really get anyone who forces Stephen to be that politically nuanced again. Like I think Patrick O'Brian tries to nuance him but there's no character that ever really puts him through his paces in the same way, and honestly every time I think about that I get a bit sad.

sometimes it seems absolutely bonkers insane crazy nuts that saionji is actually somehow the normalest member of the student council. but then you remember. he doesn’t have a sibling

3l!grian is frequently depicted as a tragic figure and sometimes i wonder if we even watched the same series

taylor, listen, youre so talented at rationalization (truly a gift!), but i feel like you mightve failed to realize that leaving a teen girl at the mercy of her bullies and leaving a civilian at the mercy of a huge fuck off water monster are, while both objectively bad, events of slightly differing orders of magnitude

Today’s hot tip is if you’re about to buy a more expensive beauty product, remember to check if the product has a mini/travel version and check the prize in relation to the amount of product you get and compare the two because there’s a real chance that the full size version will cost more per ounce/ml/gram/what have you. It’s not always the case but it has happened to me several times by now and there’s never any rhyme or reason to it as far as I can tell.

random davris hc GO

UHHHHHHH they host karaoke nights for the sburb/sgrub crew!!!

I love LOVE LOVE lovE dazai doing physical combat which he does not do often enough.

my man can send another person flying with a punch, which is why i'm not a fan at all of the popular jokes/headcanon about dazai being physically weak, I mean, I'm sure he doesn't come close to chuuya or atsushi in strength but that doesn't mean he can't defend himself, the only thing here is that dazai prefers to be a strategist and use his brains. or a gun.

bros lazy and doesn't like pain and i respect that. still, I'd like to see him fist fight more.

idk if anyone's brought this up before but im pretty sure riz's description of the dying god is referencing the watchmaker analogy

i've brought this up before i'm sure, but byakuya being sooo self-involved during the ss arc and so myopically obsessed with rukia's execution and how it relates to him and makes him feel etc... that he just doesn't clock the massive government conspiracy going down opens such a juicy can of worms for characterization.