#Please don't make me drive ^^'

[vilevexedvixen]

Driving being a necessity for a walkable job that does not require a car or ability to drive in the slightest baffles me. Like, why??? Just in case???

And on learning to drive because it "opens up your options", it doesn't that much anymore. Originally, the idea was to undercut your local competition by theoretically being able to work anywhere besides your local area. Fair enough, that's a good thing. BUT now everybody's doing it, so everyone everywhere all the time is effectively competing with an entire nation's worth of workers. And when you combine that with hybrid / home-office work? Forget it!

The exponential increase of the labour pool has shrunk everyone's individual bargaining power for higher wages and fairer hours / treatment, because this advice of "learn to drive, it'll open doors for you" has made everyone more replaceable and work far less close to home both literally and figuratively. This also means the theorhetical earning potential of people in the city (because of the jobs "created" there which are mainly worked by people elsewhere) is higher, which landlords use as an excuse to drive up rent prices. If you're born into a city that was booming in the 80s, chances are you can't afford to live in what was such a land of opportunity for your parents and have to return to "the sticks" they came from.

It sucks being stuck in a small town, I get it, but living in a city (especially one with multiple unis) trying to find work as a teenager was damn near impossible and even as an adult it's hard. And this is a practically universal experience with only a handful of exceptions. So trying to find towns that actually prioritise hiring locally and moving there seems my best bet. All the clubs, pubs and social spaces (public pools, libraries, community centres, gyms, etc.) are all shutting down because fucking bastard London is hogging all the public funding, forcing local governments to cut costs by abandoning public services and selling the rest off to private ownership. What's the point of living somewhere with "everything on my doorstep" when most of it is boarded up or costs half a day's pay or more to enjoy? Might as well live in the middle of butt-fuck nowhere! At least there I can goof about without twats trying to shank me!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

finally at that age where i'm thinking i should get a tattoo. not bc i feel strongly about it, just seems like a waste not to. i've got so much skin i'm not using

[pianokantzart]

I finally sat down and watched through all of The Super Mario Bros. Movie bonus features until I reached the section about the music, and now I'm even more mad about the licensed songs. Just watching little snippets of the OST being made gave me goosebumps and what do you mean Koji Kondo himself supervised the score!? You mean to tell me that perhaps the most iconic videogame composer of all time was helping figure out which game theme went best with which scene, and yet someone decided to shoehorn in Take On Me and Thunderstruck for no goddam reason!?

[andi-o-geyser]

“we’re doing another groundbreaking storyline with batman fighting his greatest enemy, the joker-” pack it up.

[magnuficentwo]

[Wakes up] Hey, do you ever think about Handsome Jack and wonder if he ever felt jealous of his doppelgangers ? I think he did. I think sometimes he would look out to see someone who looks and acts so much like him, someone meant to be an exact copy of the man he presents himself as, but they just Feel better. Not that they are better; no one could ever beat the real deal, after all, but something about their performance sets them aside from him, and it bothers him a lot. Because they are different people with different experiences, maybe it impacts how they perceive certain actions and niceties, and maybe that means they're just a little bit better at some things than he is, but he can't for the life of him figure out what it is. Kindness seems to come to so many of them so easily, the kind of charitability that a superhero has while saving the day, and he yearns to be able to do that as effortlessly as they do, but it just doesn't come naturally to him. He has to really try to be kind like that, and it drives him mad how hard it is. It makes sense on paper and it makes sense if he logics it out, but actually going through with it is too difficult. He's stuck in place because he's missing the one component he needs to finish a transaction and it frustrates him to no end. Handsome Jack looks at his doppelgangers who pretend to be him and thinks, for an agonizing second, wounding his ego in the process, "Why can't that be me. They are already pretending to be me, but they're not, they're like a better version of a man I already am". And then he tries not to think about it as hard as he physically can. But sometimes it lingers. Sometimes, he wonders if maybe the issue isn't with them being better; it's with him. He is a prototype to be improved on, while they're the shiny new models ready to go out and do things. But he doesn't want to be like that ! He can't be ! He's the main attraction, he's what's being sold here, so he can't possibly need improvement. Sure, he's jealous of how easily it seems for these people to slip into his own skin and personality without having to go through the agony it took for him to mold it, and he hates how it seems like people enjoy having conversations with them more than they do with Him, The Real Guy, but surely. Surely. SURELY it's nothing to be examined. He doesn't need to look into it that much. He's fine. Everything is fine. Anyway,

[kaiser1ns]

TAKIISHI CHIKA IN CHAPTER 153

[t-u-i-t-c]

"You actually were alive?"

[camellcat]

in tears why did giles never just. talk. to buffy. or any of the scoobies. I feel like buffy would've responded a lot better if he'd just tried to warn her about older men rather than oh vampire bad. who CARES if he's a vampire angel treats giles like an equal and considers all of buffy's friends "children" INCLUDING HER when he decides he needs to make a point about how he's smarter/more mature than her. it actually makes me feel crazy why did THAT not seem to bother giles !!!!

[wereh0gz]

Ok so there's something that's been bugging me for a while and. I need answers

So the fandom wiki page for Sonic the Werehog (the first one that usually appears in search results right now) says that Sonic's transformation into the Werehog is caused by Sonic absorbing negative energy from the Chaos Emeralds

Their source for this is the game manual for the Xbox 360 version of the game, which say almost the same thing

However.

The game itself has. No indication of this being the case. Like AT ALL. If anything it HEAVILY implies Dark Gaia Energy is the real cause

The opening cutscene doesn't show any negative energy from the Chaos Emeralds being absorbed by Sonic (at least, that's not what it looks like to me). It actually looks like the energy being DRAINED from both Sonic and the Emeralds, being syphoned into the canon and then shot out at the planet

Not only that, but the transformation begins only AFTER the world is shattered and Dark Gaia is released, and Sonic's movement even mirrors DG's in this scene. And that's only the small details, ignoring the obvious things like Sonic only transforming at night when DG becomes active and its energy begins affecting people, and the transformations only stopping because DG took back that energy

If negative Chaos Energy WAS the real cause, then why would DG take back energy that doesn't belong to it? Why would it be the thing that makes it whole (or "Perfect") again? Why would Sonic's transformations after the first cutscene have the same purple smoke seen in the DG minions and in people who've been possesed by them? Why haven't we seen this transformation again after Dark Gaia was sealed if it wasn't tied to it?

It just doesn't make sense to me

I haven't looked into other versions of the manual or different translations or anything so I don't even know if this is in all of them, or if it's a mistranslation or something. If it is, it wouldn't be the first time there was an error with a Sonic game manual (the famous "Eggman is a feminist" thing from the Heroes manual was a mistranslation I believe. There were other errors but I can't remember them rn)

So yeah now I'm just confused. Is it Chaos Energy? Dark Gaia Energy?? Some secret third thing???

[pisshandkerchief]

on the drive home from work I told my parent "you're going to laugh at this, but I'm feeling really insecure in my masculinity rn". to their credit they didn't laugh but they did chuckle slightly

[bugwolfsstuff]

Me after meeting Persephone for the first time: Oh thank fuck, I finally meet you, now we can be a family again and I can fuck Thanatos— ack! *is dying*

Persephone: 'Farewell, my son. Won't you come back to me? When you are able, please. Come back. I shall be waiting here. However long it takes.'

My genuine reaction: *manic, tired laughter* What. The. Actual. Fuck. Mama.

Like girl no you come to me, I AINT DOING THIS AGAIN. YOU HAVE LEGS, YOU COME TO ME. I WILL GIVE YOU DIRECTIONS, ITS A FIVE MINUTE WALK TO THE TEMPLE FROM YOUR GARDEN, I CANT DO ALL THAT AGAIN.

MAMA I JUST WANT TO RIZZ DEATH. I CANNOT FACE GETTING MY SHIT ROCKED BY YOUR HUSBAND AND HIS EMPLOYEES AGAIN, MAMA PLEASE YOUR HUSBAND IS GONNA BEAT ME AGAIN😭🫵 GET YOUR STEPS IN AND GO FIGHT YOUR HUSBAND FOR ME

(this is a joke...kinda)

[necrotic-nephilim]

6,23

for the choose violence ask game!

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

oooh, this is hard. generally any sort of "fans of this thing are annoying" for me comes with the caveat that i don't think it's *all* fans and i don't even think it's most fans, but rather a loud minority that has shaped the ship as a whole. for some reason JayRoy tends to come to mind the most, because i've been slowly dipping my toes into the Arrowfamily and i cannot *stand* any JayRoy opinions on Oliver's parenting. i think JayRoy can be blamed for a *lot* of the misunderstandings some fans have about Oliver and Roy's relationship, as well as the existence of the Arrowfam in the first place beyond just Oliver, Roy, Dinah, and inexplicably Artemis Crock, bc Young Justice (tv) will never stop leaving its mark.

any time someone gets shipped with a Batfam member, their entire fandom presence surrounds the Batfamily and headcanons are all about Bruce adopting them too and them just being another face in Wayne Manor. and for whatever reason, Roy is one of the worst victims of this. so much JayRoy content doesn't even care to acknowledge Roy's bonds with the Arrowfam, his *daughter*, his complex relationship with Chesire, his relationship with the Titans and the Outsiders, and so forth. he's just Jason's rescue boyfriend. if i have to see one more JayRoy fan act like Bruce needs to save Roy from Oliver and they badly cite Snowbirds Don't Fly, i might lose it.

i think this could also extend to TimKon as well, with a *lot* of TimKon fans not understanding Kon's relationship to the Superfamily and *grossly* demonizing Clark for the sake of Kon being Tim's rescue boyfriend. like the misunderstandings fanon has about Clark and Kon will never not infuriate me, and i *do* think TimKon carries a brunt of that blame bc it falls into the "Kon is another orphan that Bruce takes in" vibes.

23. ship you've unwillingly come around to

JayRose i think is a recent one! i used to dislike JayRose bc it felt underdeveloped and like slapping two characters with daddy issues together, but i've lately been more and more enticed by it bc of a beloved anon who has so many delightful JayTimRose thoughts. ironically i could also say JayRoyTim, bc initially it was not my speed but once again, some anons have begrudgingly convinced me, which is impressive bc i never thought i would come around to a ship involving JayRoy for all of the above reasons. i've also been coming around to BatJokes as of recent. i never hated BatJokes but it was certainly never For Me. lately though, that faith has been questioned and i've been interested in it.

the one i've been very unwilling to but have somehow gotten dragged into is JayTalia. i was always turned off by how that was handled in Lost Days and hated the pairing. but... i've been enticed by the dead dove potential of it. i'm being converted. to be fair i still think it was mishandled in Lost Days but... i'm sort of coming around to enjoying it for what it is. idk how i ended up here but i will take any excuse to whump Jason.

[doodlepede-doodles]

how unlucky that of course when I try to host a whiteboard, it goes to hell 😭 if it doesn't fix itself by monday or something, I will make a new one I think, since this has been shockingly popular lol .

[t-u-i-t-c]

"He's got his hands on our wheels, and we've got nowhere to go as a result."

[smoshingatut]

I'm kinda tired of dungeon meshi fans blatantly misinterpreting Kabru's goals, motivations, and character so they can ship him with Laios...like obviously it's awesome if you enjoy Laikabu but can you nooot twist Kabru's intentions for involving himself with the guy who constantly triggers his monster trauma and pisses him off so bad he gets brain damage so that he turns into "the guy who wants to suck Laios's dick" as his entire character? I've even seen people cut off Kabru's words to make it seem like he is admiring Laios because it would disrupt that narrative

[hylianengineer]

I don't get to do gas chromatography runs at work anymore and it's ridiculous how much I miss it. If my job after graduation doesn't let me work with gases I'm gonna be so sad. Like, I would pay someone to let me run their GC samples, even though that is normally a thing I should get paid for. I just love the GC so much. It makes the best noises and I get to play with needles and show off my hard-won ability to not poke myself with them in the process, which took me two whole years to figure out. I think I'd also be sad if the next GC I work with has a functioning self-lighting FID - I'm fond of Eva's quirks (yes, we named our GC. After the robot from WALL-E.) You know how in Star Wars droids talk with little beeps and chirps? That's what Eva sounds like, plus airplane noises. I'm so ridiculously fond of this non-living thing.