Reframing common employer phrases into plainspeak

Laziness = poor ppl resting/playing, ever

Working vacation = rich ppl getting paid to rest/play

Rage applying = looking for a better job

Rage quitting = leaving toxic job/boss

Quiet quitting = refusing to do free labor

Blackmail = employees leveraging anything

Insubordination = talking about pay at work

Company culture = guilt trips & pizza as pay

Morality clause = make us look bad, get fired

"We're like family" = "we ask for favors, then never pay you back"

"We expect everyone to pitch in" = "we expect you to do free labor"

"HR is here to help you" = "HR is here to stop you from suing us"

Thx for coming to my TedTalk

Something I miss from earlier eras of the creative side of the internet was things just being unabashedly low-budget. Just all unashamedly amateur, unprofessional, ‘I don’t own a good camera but I have a story to tell you’, ‘I can’t afford a good mic but I have a song to sing for you,’ ‘I don’t have any kind of background in editing or lighting and I only just picked up this guitar last Tuesday but here’s an entire musical me and my friends wrote about our favourite book, we filmed it on a potato and put it up on YouTube in ten minute segments because we thought it was pretty funny.’

idk how to feel about the atla live action show but I just saw that the guy who’s playing zuko mentioned zukka in an interview and I’m kinda foaming at the mouth, going feral at the moment

ENOUGHHHH. T-MINUS ONE DAY

Some people put their whole hearts into trying to make Mollymauk a Glee character when he is, at his core, somewhere between a washed up magician selling fake silk sheets on daytime television and a line cook in an ankle-length fur coat who you meet at a drag show, who feeds your dog filet mignon and then ghosts you halfway through your third date.

[ID: two gifs from lupin zero. in the first, lupin the second pulls a gun and points it towards the camera confidently. his expression turns to shocked surprise as the gif ends.

in the second gif lupin the third is staring back defiantly, and the camera shifts to reveal jigen behind him with his gun aimed over lupin's shoulder at lupin the second. end id]

With the fact Scarab canonically can just break his bones and shit, I need more of human Scarab being so overly flexible or fucky with his own bones that it makes people around him feel ill

Aro culture is going to spencers and seeing only ace pride merch and no aro pride merch

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FNaF Fic Snippets 1/?

Somebunny to Love - Fem!Reader/Glamrock Bonnie

“They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, y’know.” Bonnie crowds you near the door. “You trying to tell me something, babe?” He tweaks one of your fluffy ears.

“Pfff, as if.” You have to look away from his knowing grin because the heat of the room is really getting to you. “Got ‘em on Easter clearance because I work at this animal themed place. It’s called Freddy Fazbear’s,” you say, staring a hole into the ceiling even though you can feel him leaning closer, “you may have heard of it—”

“Uh-huh,” he drawls, continuing to stroke at the ear. It’s not even attached to you, you don’t know why you’re starting to quake— “Go on.”

“I—uh—anyway,” you huff, forgetting where you were going with that. “They’re not even blue, so it’s not like I’m Bonnie-bounding, thanks very m—”

He chuckles. “Oh, ‘cause purple ears aren’t Bonnie themed at all.” He tuts and straightens your headband, stroking down into your hair now. “Try again, little bunny.”

Your eyes nearly cross as his claws scrape along your scalp. “They are—lavender—” you nearly whine, but then the door swings open and you’re almost clobbered by a retro server who squawks and loses her grip on her tub. If not for the programmed reflexes of your favorite menace of a rabbit, there would be mess of dirty dishware to clean, but instead you’re able to slip out of the parlor while Bonnie apologizes profusely for the trouble. You go to fan your face when you notice the cup sweating in your hand and—oh yeah, Dan.

You wobble back toward the tables, feeling decidedly damp between the legs.

[ao3]

this whole binding/selling fanfiction business has me thinking someone is pulling an elaborate prank on us cause i refuse to believe we reached a point in the timeline where critical thinking is so scarce people are not understanding how immoral, unnecessary, dangerous to fandom spaces and most of all illegal the whole thing is

today on “my ADHD makes me do things”, I purchased blank keycaps on AliExpress because I decided I wanted to make 999 themed keycaps for the numbers on my keyboard, chances are the keycaps will show up in a month and I’ll forget what I wanted them for

My dash is going to be fucking unusable for days now

TV Tropes can reveal some great trivia about things you enjoy. It can also illuminate that some people have deeply exasperating opinions about the things you enjoy.

look, writing is not easy but it is not torture either

First of all this is not aimed at anyone in particular. It's just that I read a lot of "writing about writing" stuff from a variety of authors, and it's rather disheartening to see so many people agree with the attitude of "writing is such pain, I hate it, I would rather tear out and eat my own fingernails and yet I continue to do it for some reason."

Like... ok. People exaggerate for humor and clout. I get it. But if it is genuinely that painful of a process, maybe... don't do it? Maybe only write when it becomes painful NOT to. It shouldn't be a form of self-harm, is what I'm trying to say. "But pain is the only way to make great ARRRT!!" I hear. No it isn't. I promise there is more than one way.

I have been writing down (poorly-spelled) stories ever since my four-year-old self learned to hold a pencil. I am just this way, apparently. It's all I know how to do. If it was such torture to write, trust me, I would never come back to it again. I am such a lazy fucking hedonist, I will abandon the slightest unpleasurable thing at the first opportunity. (As Peter Lorre once said, I work awfully hard for someone so lazy, but the fact remains: I am one laaaaaazy mofo).

And yet, the urge to write never goes away. I might not write for several days or a couple weeks at a time, but if I ignore it too long, it becomes a compulsion. It actually gets painful not to write something down. Sure, it's often hard to write! Sometimes I feel like throwing the whole story away. But once I get into it, I might sit there typing for six to eight hours, completely lost in another world, before I crash and fall asleep until the next afternoon. Then I feel better and write some more until it is done.

I guess I don't want to see aspiring writers discouraged by this idea that the writing process = mental anguish. If anything, we should use writing as a way to cope with existing mental anguish. Not everything in this world has to be so painful.

I saw a post today that I didn't want to like..yuh know fuckin hijack cause I saw an artist talk about it. but I wanted to talk about it cause I've had folks unintentionally do stuff in my favor that I didn't appreciate. I've spoken about it on my facebook but not here. I notice this happens way too much and I beg you do not confront me that someone is copying my style... I have been around since the 2000's online. I have had many claim my art, topics, and style inspire them... yes pple will nip from me cause I inspire them and I'm okay with that. As long as no one is being racist towards me and my work I don't care. I'm happy I can inspire others in such a manner..do not go under their art going "this looks like tainted sweet meats art"..its rude af and personally if I see you do it I won't tolerate that and most likely comment on that post congratulating the artist’s work and make you look like a fool ( I’m very petty on that front).I also teach folks paid art classes privately online and the ones I teach under my wings as an apprentice will have styles like mine... THIS IS ON PURPOSE... so cut it tf out... On said post I understood where the artist was coming from about just being used as an inspo resource rather than treated as an artist. An it took me so long to realize what folks were doing when inspired by me cause I was so used to getting white folks be super racist with my my art and extremely fetishy race wise with me in the art community that I couldn't tell the difference if this was like genuine inspo or like are you poppin your rocks off at the fact that a lot of my art is asian/black coded. If that yuh know *spice* was something you can sell off me type thing as yuh brand. Cause I've had it happen where folks copy my work and even one creepy artist stalked me for years ripping my ocs to resell them as “urban adopts” and mentally I didn’t see that as inspo an was like damn just hard R me and get it over with at that point. It was kinda wild.( dont worry tho that artist was quickly called out by black twitter for some racist stuff they drew..like making a black vamp oc getting hung...woo boi...that was...that was something. hoooooooweeeever, I did notice it triggered others in the past when I spoke about it to target folks who just genuinely loved me and my work and that made me feel a bit protective over folks who just enjoyed my work and I inspired them to draw.  I think in my older age I can tell the difference very quickly and don't mind folks getting inspired by my work as long as racism and fetish aint the reason cause at that point I wouldn't see that as art inspo just plain overall disrespect to me as a person. Wanted to say a thing cause damn I felt that post and understood it. but this is just for me tho and my experience... every artist is different.

cradle pharmaceuticals mentioned!!

fr if taylor and philip don't kiss then what's this all been about. (the entire series of billions) what is it all for