#of our contracts. so. yeah

[chaotictomtom]

trying to check out to see if i'll ever manage to get top surgery this year and. let's just say i thought the delay would be bigger but. the price is still always such a big ass problem i kinda wanna bash my head against a wall but. anyway

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dungeon Meshi: The RPG

[shortnotsweet]

I aim low / I aim true, and the ground's where I go / I work late, where I'm free from the phone / and the job gets done, but you worry some, I know

“TOO SWEET”, Unreal Unearth: Unending (2024) [ HOZIER ]

In “Too Sweet” Hozier draws a contrast between two individuals with different lifestyles and preferences, one who enjoys living life at his own pace, indulging in simple pleasures like whiskey, coffee, and late nights while not worrying too much about conforming to societal norms of waking up early and living a disciplined life, and a second individual, presumably the partner, is portrayed as someone who values discipline, health, and structure. They encourage the narrator to live a healthier lifestyle, waking up early and taking care of themselves.

Born from the 3rd Circle of Hell, Gluttony, same as his track, “Eat Your Young”, Hozier examines excessive mess and overindulgence, similiar to Dante’s depiction of gluttony where it not only refers to overconsumption of food and drink but also the overindulgence in any worldly pleasure to the detriment of spiritual growth.

GENIUS ANNOTATION

[theythemmer]

im trying to sleep but i can’t

how’d you know that?

[ulteri0rm0tives]

When u gave up yr bfs life against his wishes to the monsters that took it in the first place and u come out the other end still dying anyway so u either live the rest of ur life managing the slow mental degradation of ur mind till eventually u end up dead in a motel somewhere all alone brain leaking from yr nose or u relinquish yr life to the company allowing it to keep u locked up as property for what will practically feel like eternity in the same purgatorial cell they kept yr bf in for all those years! because they totally super prommy to give yr soul back once they find a compatible body that they can put it in! one they'll totally ethically source just like that one guy did to his son! creating this cycle of one life stealing another for another for another! or worse! If they create this body something that is finally compatible where u won't live on in a total state of constant metaphysical organ rejection and they put yr soul into it yr soul might not be their property anymore but haha that body is now! so no matter what there isn't a fate where yr escaping the debt u'll always be in to this company :) and it really just leaves u with the question, the one asking u if u could even say this was all worth it in the end, giving up the one you love for something that was always so inevitable? :)

[likesplatterpaint]

Yall

I unofficially officially have an eight week contract with The Art of Education university to produce video tutorials for their graduate course on digital illustration AND despite not getting the subject matter expert position, I’ve been signed on as a consultant for it too

AND a referral from the curriculum chair towards an open graphic design position with them

AHHHHHHHHH

[mahmur]

[twilight-deviant]

Requested a copy of the personal data tumblr has on me.

I'm trying to think how I feel about them keeping track of my answers for every single poll I've ever voted in. Knowing they could sell this information if they wanted, even though I opted out. I think I'll be more cautious with my answers in the future.

[cementcornfield]

ok yeah the emotional whiplash yesterday of the positivity of duke’s comments contrasted with tee’s simple but Complete Dismissal (that we’re assuming at least) via cap tweet was.... A Lot. a bummer note to go to bed on! but after some sleep and Rational Thinking…

obviously the team has not presented an offer that tee’s camp is happy with yet, or else the deal would be done by now lol. and very few extensions have happened yet (the first major one i think only yesterday with the bills receiver, who while i’m sure is talented, isn’t on tee’s level)! so when duke is out here saying that they’ll do whatever it takes to get tee done, tee obviously doesn’t feel that way yet, because i’m sure the offers are simply not good enough at this point!  

now of course we’d PREFER for them to just give tee what he wants and get it over with, especially after everything they’ve put tee through….but that would be quite a high expectation for a team that has never proven to be able to work like that lol 🫠

and the thing is, maybe there are offers that are close. again we know tee switched agents. from the guy known for the most lucrative guaranteed deals to ja’marr’s agent (who is also quite good but he’s not DM). we know money is not tee’s most pressing concern (but it is obviously up there! because of course it is!) but from the side of tee’s camp, it actually doesn’t behoove the agent to get a deal done too quickly. 

to get a deal done, before free agency, where tee would be set to break the bank with a bidding war, without the leverage of the tag, would not look good to other potential clients! clients would look at that and see the agent as cutting off opportunity for more money, more options. and why should the agent do that unless its a last resort à la the tag. it would, frankly, look like piss poor negotiating.

so again, the tag is unfortunately a pretty important step in negotiations at this point. that’s where all the leverage will be put on the table. my guess is that it will happen (although i hope it won’t) and then they go from there. and we just pray it gets done before OTAs 🙏🙏🙏

[loumauve]

I snapped today at work, and by snapped I mean I politely commented on a help desk ticket by summing up an mess of an (type of) issue that's come up for at least the fourth time in the 2+ months I've been managing user accounts, and asked the person responsible to fix it (himself for once) because last time I fixed his mess-up it took me two whole days to work out the details with at least four other colleagues from different departments and I really don't want to do it again. there's other shit that needs doing, I've been working 10+ hour days for most of this week already, so I need to cut down not add on more.

(good thing tho - at least we managed to fix the issue where the dataset of a newer employee got mixed up with another one of the same name and therefore wasn't able to apply for any of the access/accounts she needed. technically not entirely my area but it does impact us not being allowed to create an account for her so I figured I might as well track that issue down. took three days and at least three other people, but hey - it should all work out now. yay for that)

[baejax-the-great]

I think some of the arguments about fan interpretations of characters and OOCness forget a fundamental part of human nature which is this: each of us perceives the world and the people in it in slightly different ways based on our own experiences.

Most people have certain characteristics they consider fundamental to their Blorbo and some characteristics that are less important and could be changed, ignored, or scrapped for AU purposes. Unfortunately, which specific characteristics fall into which category are not going to be the same from person to person. Sometimes the overlap between two people's interpretations will be huge, and those two people will probably enjoy the same fan content. Sometimes not so much.

Personally, I write for a ship that were childhood friends that became lovers. In many AUs, people have them meeting for the first time in adulthood, and for me, that changes the nature of the ship and their characters so much that I can't really get into it. I consider their childhood friendship fundamental to them as people, and those authors don't. Which is fine. Many other people like those AUs. Nobody here is really in the wrong, we just have different opinions on what makes these particular Blorbos them.

In almost all cases, someone out there will find your interpretation of a character OOC. And that's fine. Hopefully they are polite and simply choose not to read your fics/engage with your HCs/whatever. But I think all of us have had the experience of reading a wildly OOC take and seeing other people enthusiastically going along with this "wrong" interpretation of the characters and thinking, "What??!?!"

It's fine. It's normal. It's annoying as hell (people are wrong on the internet), but it's inevitable. And if you find that interpretation particularly heinous to your Blorbo sensibilities, the block button is your friend.

[bensdavies]

i know i said i was staying off twitter but i lied and i've seen someone (annoying podcaster) saying we're making chelsea's project look like a good idea BE FUCKING REAL OH MY DAYS

[fingertipsmp3]

I feel like I’ve lived through at least a month just in the past 3 days. I checked the date just now and damn near had an out of body experience when I realised Monday was only two days ago

[shippingmyworld]

the worst part of having an office-like job is when you ask someone a questions and instead of answering you, they slap you with a 30 pages pdf and say "Please refer to the attached document."

like first off, if i understood the document i wouldn't have a question

second, you do realize that's basically the same as telling me to "fuck off and figure it out" in office speak, right?

[possum-tooth]

I have never had so many complaints about my s/o. I feel like you could do so much better is he like a housing necessity or

i feel like i only post the L's so thats kind of on me but. also kind of yes bc ive been unemployed for 2 months so hes been the breadwinner and has paid rent in that time

[joutsummer]

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