#Work Management System

[trackhrapp2]

[metaphoricalmonster]

how can she escape so easily?

[yeonjune]

Yeonjun about the strain he felt while preparing for his debut solo project ✙ "GGUM" MAKING FILM

[significant-narratives]

as someone born and raised in toronto who never wants to live anywhere else — the way some of you talk about my hometown is like. deeply deeply upsetting. lol lmao.

[telesodalite]

Never getting over Fulcrum being a project manager...

Idk why, but something about that is so funny to me. Not just because the title of "project manager" is inherently kinda funny for a Decepticon, but also because-

1. It's vague sounding and hard to explain irl because it technically exists in multiple fields, like healthcare or manufacturing, which surely translates into canon in some way.

2. In canon, it's simultaneously a really mundane, innocuous sounding job, yet it's also a super morally awful position to reside over depending on the context. (*cough* forced colonization and cyberforming *cough*)

And 3. It solidifies the fact that behind all the surface level militaristic work we get with both the Decepticons and Autobots, there's also Cons and Bots with "normal" jobs in both factions.

Like, sure yeah we get scientists and doctors, engineers and programmers, but usually in big important or warfront positions. (For plot reasons, understandably.) But it's also really funny and interesting to think of those that worked background positions, or minor jobs.

Like an Autobot working in their equivalent of an HR department, or a Decepticon who runs one of their outpost's or starship's kitchens.

Just all the pre-war jobs that didn't just disappear with the war, but instead evolved to exist within the factions.

It's particularly funny with the Decepticons though, because it could be a super mundane job or situation, but because it's them, it has to have an air of ~e v i l~ to it, either legitimately and/or merely for the vibes, like Tarn's "performance reviews".

[tj-crochets]

I have not forgotten the adorable mouse that won the poll for what I should sew next but my job decided the day before we switch to a new software to entirely change how paperwork is processed in the new software. I am the one who has to train everyone in the change. I do not know how to process the paperwork the new way and can't learn because the IT guy did not give me the permissions in the system to access the buttons needed so I just can't see the entire interface at all. I do not have the mental spoons for pattern designing at the moment so I might just sew a baby blanket or something instead

[karuma-meii]

One thing that I think is really good about Professor Layton Vs Phoenix Wright, is how hard the game can lean into certain themes and ideas due to its setting.

Like obviously all ace attorney games have whacky court proceedings, but plvspw really dials up the drama. You walk into the courtroom and immediately see the previous defendant thrown into a pit of fire while she begs for mercy. The defendant dangles in a little metal cage. The trial is only a showcase by the inquisition, before they sentence the next witch to die. The multiple witnesses that talk all over each other and contradict each other, openly plot with each other to get their story straight.

The sense of hysteria in the witness testimonials is especially good, I feel. Like there's fear and anger and conviction and indignation in everyone. Everyone already knows the truth, right? So you play the part, get caught in it and tell what you think must have happened. What sets it apart from other aa games in that respect is that very little of that testimony is a purposeful lie. Unlike in Labyrinthia, in the US/Japan (almost) everyone commits perjury on purpose, simply disguising their perfect recollection of events. Plvspw really digs into manipulated memories and how you yourself can be easily manipulated by the given narrative.

We see this with Luke. Luke isn't lying because he's hiding something, or for some nefarious purpose. He's a good kid. We know Luke. He's our puzzle solving friend. He's scared and angry and in grief. He doesn't realise what's happening, or what he's part of. A literal witch hunt.

For a game series that's so focused on law enforcement, I think this is a really interesting avenue to explore, and something I wish the mainline series did a little more of.

[wishmemellon]

In a modern au I’ve done absolutely nothing with I’ve given Apollo pet rats and mice.

They love them dearly and carry them around in their shirt pocket.

[voidcat-senket]

I don’t have gifs of it because I don’t make gifs but if I DID

I would use them to point out how INTERESTING it was

That when Helly came out of the elevator and was escorted down the hall by Miss Huang they were consistently framed to be the same height.

[bitchfitch]

Do y'all ever see a post that just like. Haunts you forever? And which consistently comes back up when you're trying to get to sleep

Anyways, if you do comms the whole "2+ characters in a single piece costs less than if they were bought as separate commissions" thing Isn't supposed to be a buy one get one x% off type situation.

Your commission prices should be accounting for the time you spend communicating with the client, the time you spend on file storage and prep, and the time it takes to properly document your communications and the transaction. Those things all take time and it Really adds up when you do enough comms. And the time they take? doesn't usually change much based on the number of characters.

That's why the second, third, etc, character can cost less. Not because you're giving a discount. Right. Right? Y'all aren't cutting yourself a bad deal, right? You're Not paying yourself less than an exploitative boss would pay you for that time and skilled labor, right?

[junewongapologia]

The fact is tho that no matter how you look at it, no matter how insufferable she is, no matter how Out Of Touch, regardless of whether she’s doing herself no favours: Eloise is right about society and just about everyone else in the show is wrong.

Like, she’s not got the full picture, she’s blinkered and her political philosophy is not very in depth or well thought out. But she’s right, and I think that’s why a lot of people watching really don’t like her because she’s breaking the illusion. All in all, the 1810s were a shit time to be alive for most people, and you can “well actually” it all you like, but the Luddite movement existed for a reason, the Chartists existed for a reason, Porto-feminist writers like Wollstonecraft and de Gouges wrote what they did for a reason.

So when you keep being reminded that it was a terrible social order for women - in a show targeted mainly towards women for escapist purposes then that character is going to come across as irritating, because she’s ruining the immersion.

Really, her attitude isn’t more anachronistic than the dresses, or the hairdos, or the diamond necklaces (men and women had been advocating women’s right to vote since before Eloise was born, lads), but it’s a problem because people are watching the show for the sweeping romances and the general regency vibe, they don’t want to think about how the regency was for most people. Which inevitably leads to some incredible projection, when watchers of a show with the central conceit of only being interested in the love lives of the top one percent of the one percent of the British aristocracy acting as though Eloise is the only privileged person on the show.

And yeah, she is better off than most of the people who exist in all of Regency Britain (though if you were to take the show as read, Britain is made up of about 70% aristocracy, 1% gentry, 5% urban bourgeoisie and 24% urban workers), but she’s the only one whose privilege is harped on out of her whole family and social circle. 99% of the speaking characters in the show come from a posher background than Beau fucking Brummell.

And! Eloise is literally just about the only main character who ever has to question her privilege! And when she is in season 2 she doesn’t throw a shitfit, she’s willing to learn! She goes out of her way to hear perspectives that she wouldn’t have heard in her social circle! But the narrative punishes her for that, and that’s because for all the criticism she gets about needing her privilege checked, they don’t actually want her to learn, they just want her to shut up and enjoy the trappings of regency decadence as much as they do.

Also - I know it’s really fashionable to rag on “pick-mes” and “Not Like Other Girls” - but actually, no, “traditional femininity” has never been socially unacceptable for women the way being GNC is, and it is in fact ruthlessly socially enforced against GNC women, even more so in the 1810s. Eloise is a teenaged girl in a society that stigmatises her for her wish for more legal autonomy, the idea that she’s somehow the villain for not being able to enjoy “feminine” hobbies without seeing them as just another element of the way women’s education is trivialised as ornamental, is farcical. “Sewing is a valuable and useful skill” so is cooking, but there’s a reason my mam, and not my dad, had home economics lessons, and that reason is still misogyny, despite the fact that it set her up better for being able to operate independently as an adult.

Idk I’m just kind of uncomfortable that in a world of rising reactionary political sentiment towards women, and this seemingly increasingly re-normalised view that women need to be wives and homemakers, people feel that the person on the show who needs to do the most introspection regarding their politics is an eighteen-year-old who is vocal about the fact that she has limited legal rights, and not any of the adult men in the show (a lot of whom probably have seats in the Upper House!!!) who never mention politics at all.

And frankly, given the shower who were Having Political Opinions in the long eighteenth century, Eloise’s brand of semi-anachronistic protofeminism is infinitely preferable to Hannah “I refuse to teach the poor how to write in my schools” More, or Edmund “don’t read my big thesis on revolutions too closely it’s definitely not all lies and junk history” Burke, or even a load of prominent members of the Bluestocking Society.

[laniidae-passerine]

I made my post about Dean Highbottom and then as I was writing my tags realised that his Hunger Games counterpart is Haymitch. and now my head is in my hands and I don’t think I’ll ever recover

[cestacruz]

Alright alright, realization for something. So a ton of Opsen is like, sticky sex, but you know what these miscommunicating dorks really need?

SPARK SEX!

A BIG PART OF SPARK SEX (and spark bonding ;) ) IS VULNERABILITY. BARING YOUR LITERAL HEART AND SOUL TO LET IT TOUCH/BE TOUCHED BY ANOTHER BOT AND LETTING THEM INSIDE YOUR HEAD TO SEE YOUR MEMORIES AND YOUR EXPERIENCES AND YOYR THOUGHTS—

So imagine Optimus and Sentinel getting into spark sex after a spat and they’re both shown each others emotions, how they each see what the other feels about what happened. About Archa 7, about being Magnus, about each other. Both of them hide so much of their feelings, Optimus putting his aside for others, Sentinel deflecting and defending so he doesn’t have to feel the pain—to have both of them be able to feel each others weak spots and to have someone look at their own—it’s overwhelming in a good way. They finally can understand each other without all the bullshit of pulling ranks and titles, without hiding or deflecting. There is nobody in their heads but each other, finally bridging a gap between that they’ve been trying to fix for ages. Optimus can see how much Sentinel wants him near, how him making offers regarding the elite guard was a way for them to get close again, to have Optimus by his side. And Sentinel can see how Optimus longs for the old days between them, where they were friends and could count on each other. And now they both sit here, sparks touching as they relearn each other in a way they never thought they would. Something tentative and gentle swells between them both, understanding, affection, need. They let the waves of it crash between them, let it overtake everything until their processors are muddled on who’s who and they disconnect to bask in afterglow and new understandings.

In short: Senop Spark Sex—WE NEED IT

IM FALLING TO MY KNEES AND CRYING ??? CLUTCHING MY HEAD IM GONNA SCREAM

DUDE THATS SO FUCKING PEAK IM GONNA HAVE TO KILL MYSELF NOW!!!!

OUGRHHhhrgrhhhh vulnerability ugrhhrhhh god getting sentinel to that would be such a struggle and im not even talking about optimus

Optimus is an angel for being able to deal with Sentinel but ugrhhr how could he not when Sentinel is SO. JUST. THE WAY YOU CAN TELL SENTINEL MISSES OPTIMUS SO MUCH

AND HOW WHEN HE NEEDS HELP HE ALWAYS CALLS OPTIMUS

The moment he found out Optimus was still alive he never stopped asking for HIS help he missed him so much SO MUCH

Ugrhrh and i just saw the eps where the PAST (blackarachnia) hits em (? But like ughrhrhr they both miss the old days so much AND SENTINEL ASKING OP TO BE MAGNUS ??? And before, op telling him he'd be a good leader (he was being geniune but like...buddy i think youre a little delulu/down bad for sentinel if you think that... sentinel needs Help)

UGHRHGTHHHTHHHTHTHHT on a silly note they'd get to the spark sex in the stupidest way ever actually

[truly-sincerely]

Alex Rider S3 timeline

Season 1 Timeline | Misc Timeline Notes

Some facts:

For time of year we know s3 takes place in the winter, based on dialogue from Blunt and Smithers

The trees in the background during establishing shots are just as unreliable as in s2 but during actor shots they're a mix of green and barren (most notably the cherry tree in front of the Rider house), implying late winter, probably February.

I don't know anything about the British school system, but Tom mentions having taken his GCSEs in ep1 so they're presumably on holiday from whatever comes after that (sixth form? A levels? it's Maltese to me).

Now we look at the elephant in the room. John Rider:

There are two different timestamps on the recording of the bridge exchange. 06/01/2005 and 2005-05-21. Not sure what the discrepancy means but since the latter has to be May we can assume that the former is formatted for June (as opposed to January). Also, Alex wasn't born yet in January 2005.

Alex's birthday is 13 Feb, 2005 (according to a prop from s2ep8)

Julia says that Alex was six months old, but based on the time stamp he was closer to three months old (easy mistake)

John and Helen Rider's gravestone puts their deaths in 2006 and Julia says it took her six months to track them down after the bridge exchange, so that checks out

Now in the present Mrs Jones says that it's been 17 years since Scorpia was destroyed, which would make s3 take place in early 2023

Alex is about to or just turned 17 years old

And therefore he was 15 in s1 and s2

S3 takes place over the course of nine days, which I think we can all agree is absolutely ridiculous, but that's how it works out.

Day 1: Boat ride; find Julia Rothman's house; Kyra's soup accident

Day 2: Identify and research Julia; Museum art showing

Day 3: Scorpia sends threat to Kellner; Tom and Alex go to Julia's villa; Pritchard gets blown up; Alex sneaks into Consanto and it blows up too; Alex goes to Malagosto

Day 4: Scorpia kills the footballers; Tom and Kyra get arrested; Julia tells Alex about his dad getting killed on the bridge; and Yassen! Is here!

Day 5: The assault course and the water bottle; shooting challenge; getting beat up by the other trainees; Pritchard's funeral; Tom and Kyra trace the call to Malagosto and Nile tries to send them home; the incursion assessment

Day 6: Shinai (Bokken) 5 on 1; Department calls Scorpia back and Scorpia gives them three days; Kyra and Tom find Malagosto; Smithers and Crawley find Julia's litter; Syl graduates; Jack gets a delivery from Tom; Max Grendel gets Yassassinated

Day 7: Everyone gets back to London; Blunt asks the CIA for help; Alex and Yassen surveil Jones' flat; Jack, Kyra, and Tom go to the Department; Navy Seals raid Malagosto; Alex doesn't kill Jones and gets sent back to the Department

Day 8: Nile sets up in the big church; Crawley takes Alex home; Blunt and Julia do storytime for Alex and Yassen

Day 9: Alex goes back into the Department; MI5 try to take Alex; Alex calls Julia for a pickup; a bunch of people in Bath don't die; Blunt retires; Alex comes in and gets John's medals; Nile gets Yassassinated

[lesbiansanemi]

i have a coworker who has dealt with similar mental health issues as me and she keeps encouraging me to take a full leave from work and is confused why I won’t just do that and today I found out when she took hers she moved back in with her parents and her grandma, who she was renting from, just didn’t charge her rent and like. I’m so happy for you genuinely, that you had that option. But I have to financially support myself or like. die. I don’t have anyone. I don’t have anyone I can just move in with and if I don’t pay rent I’m homeless. I can’t just not get paid for a few months. and it’s just. ugh. it’s frustrating